Complex excess!

"Jethro Tull" were always relatively versatile and Anderson has been able always to challenge one or the other side of the tape to the extreme. With "A Passion Play" in 1973 we will experience the excessive culmination of complex Progressive rock phase of the band. After universally recognized as genial "Thick as a Brick", also a very complex, but still catchy compared, progressive rock album, now the excess. "A Passion Play" is very pompous, equipped with radio play passages, jazzy outbursts that have been so never heard from Tull, complex, full of rhythm and tempo change ... and therefore the masterpiece of complex progressive side of the band ,
Of course, not missing Anderson's haunting vocals, his intense flute and acoustic worn, quieter sounds on "A Passion Play" - but all in all I would recommend this album but only the real Proggies as recommended outdoors. For it is, as for me also, probably always an ingenious piece of music remain. Last but not least you can hear on "A Passion Play" who, in addition to the other forefathers, has sent the Prog on the way. And every man that the catchy, easily digestible folk-rock side of the band preferably more, should perhaps rather hold on to subsequent releases.
The only criticism that could be practicing, maybe would concern the fact that Anderson is not an appropriate end of the whole. "A Passion Play" ends somehow middle of it ... if you hear it only once. But If you start the whole thing all over again, then this impression and it evaporates discovered that there is an endless track for the end meant only a short dramatic pause. A moment of silence the just belongs in principle to the composition, just like everything else.
So Get Over this timeless work of art!
5 stars!