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WARCHILD IIJethro TullProg Folk4.07 | 11 ratings |
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WarChild was Jethro Tull's return to short-form songwriting after two album-length epics in a row, Thick As A Brick and A Passion Play. It wasn't meant to be, mind - before recording A Passion Play the band had spent a bunch of time at the Chateau d'Herouville trying to put together a double album that didn't quite gel. After rattling out A Passion Plan under pressured conditions to get their release schedule back on track, the band would go back to workshopping a large number of shorter compositons for the WarChild album - a clutch of which made it on, and a bunch of which were left on the cutting room floor.WarChild II is, in essence, a collection of the off-cuts from the sessions - as previously cleaned up by Steven Wilson for the deluxe 40th anniversary rerelease of the album. Beyond a mild tweak to the running order, this is essentially a pressing of those "associated recordings" from the second CD of that set, minus the orchestral takes on WarChild compositions. I actually think the missing material is about as good as the stuff that made it onto the album, so if you're inclined to think WarChild is unfairly underrated this may be worth seeking out - assuming you haven't just obtained the boxed set. If you'd rather just skip straight to Minstrel In the Gallery and regard this period of Tull as fairly weak, it's not going to win you over.
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