The two hundred and fifth album: #205 Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Time to try and settle back into a new rhythm, with life staying the way it is for another few months at this rate. We kick off things with Jethro Tull's Aqualung, a hard and folk rock album that felt more important as I listened to it. The riff of the opening track Aqualung alone is familiar and a great song that justifies its length on the album. It moves to some more sensitive sounds - the flute in Cross-Eyed Mary alone changing the feel of the album as it moves into something softer.
It's a gentler end that prefaces the second side, titled "My God". As it deals with religion, parts bring back the hard rock style while others sound choral, clearly imitatin religious songs - sounding quite impressive having been more immersed in classical music. Again, after the heavier start the music gets softer again, Locomotive Breath bringing the energy back up and creating a different curve to the side with a second spike of hard rock the first side doesn't have.
It's an interesting album, comtemplative in places but at the same time containing a lot of good, strong rock music.