Jethro Tull launch video for Sad City Sisters; second track taken from The Zealot Gene
Jethro Tull launch video for Sad City Sisters; second track taken from The Zealot Gene
British Progressive Rock Luminaries JETHRO TULL recently announced details for the groups first studio album of new material in over 18 years! Originally making headlines in March of this year, the bands newest offering, titled The Zealot Gene, will see a January 28th, 2022 release on Inside Out Music. Today they are pleased to reveal the video for the albums second single Sad City Sisters, directed by Iranian filmmaker Sam Chegini who previously created a clip for the much-loved classic Aqualung.
Ian Anderson comments on the track: ”Sad City Sisters throws up memories of a Saturday night in Cardiff, Wales when I was on my way home from our concert in St David's Hall some years ago. It could equally well have been any town in the UK, I suppose, or even most cities of the Western World. What possesses hell-bent and vulnerable young people to slip so easily into that tragic loss of dignity and end up sprawling drunk in a wet and windy street at midnight?”
A record that began to take shape as early as 2017, The Zealot Gene, in many ways, seeks to defy convention during a time when the business of being a touring and recording artist has never faced more uncertainties. Tull bandleader Ian Anderson holds no reservations about the role for which the mythos and themes of Biblical storytelling played in the lyrical content of the new album, saying: "While I have a spot of genuine fondness for the pomp and fairytale story-telling of the Holy Book, I still feel the need to question and draw sometimes unholy parallels from the text. The good, the bad, and the downright ugly rear their heads throughout, but are punctuated with elements of love, respect, and tenderness.”
Looking back on the earth-shaking disruption of the Coronavirus pandemic, which ultimately ended the bands touring plans and hopes of a 2020 release for The Zealot Gene, Anderson shares, "It was so sudden. Amidst the concerns and warnings of the scientific community and a few more enlightened politicians, we all retreated in disbelief to our homes to wait out the storm."
Watch the first part of several new interviews with Ian Anderson on the making of the album here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCN4o4PSYaI
Pre-order now here: https://jethrotullband.lnk.to/TheZealotGene