LOWRIDER & ELEPHANT TREE premiere cover collaboration of ‘Nothing to Say’
LOWRIDER
& ELEPHANT TREE
premiere cover collaboration of ‘Nothing to Say’
from “Best of Jethro Tull Redux”
Members of Swedish desert rockers LOWRIDER and London doomsters ELEPHANT TREE present their collective respectful yet twisted nod to JETHRO TULL by delivering a massive, spaced-out take on the track ‘Nothing to Say‘ from the British rock legends’ third album “Benefit” (1970).
This thrilling cover version is the final advance single of the companion album “Best of Jethro Tull Redux“, which will be released parallel to the forthcoming MER Redux Series installment “Aqualung Redux”.
Please find more details about “Best of Jethro Tull Redux” below. Both Redux albums have been scheduled for release on December 6, 2024.
The weedy joint LOWRIDER and ELEPHANT TREE tribute rendition of JETHRO TULL‘s‘Nothing to Say‘is now available via this link: https://youtu.be/UB4A7ogxe8s
LOWRIDER & ELEPHANT TREE “Nothing to Say”
taken from the album “Best of Jethro Tull Redux” https://youtu.be/UB4A7ogxe8s
LOWRIDER comment: “I vividly remember hearing Jethro Tull for the first time when I was 12, the radio was on in my grandmother’s kitchen”, singer and vocalist Peder Bergstrand recalls. “Suddenly, this enormous riff comes on, and I’m just, what is this?!! Being pre-internet era, I had to write down random lyrics to try and identify later who this was. Remember, this was before Shazam or even Googling anything. I went to a record store with my notes and they identified it as ‘A New Day Yesterday’ and I was an instant Tull fan. Diving deeper into their back catalog, I found the album ‘Benefit’ and the track ‘Nothing to Say’, and it quickly became my favorite Tull track. I have played it more than I can remember and always heard a heavier, doomier version in my head. This project finally gave me the opportunity to realise it. Fresh off the heels of making the Elephant Tree collaborative split, I figured this would be a cool way to do even more with them. I messaged their drummer Sam. At the time, he resided in the countryside but had access to a 2-mic rehearsal room. Sam just went in and did a super raw and awesome drum take. Our guitarist Niclas and I layered our stuff on it and made this super moody, doomy version of one of my favorite songs ever.”
ELEPHANT TREE and LOWRIDER have most recently collaborated on the split-album “The Long Forever” that came out on October 5, 2024.
When LOWRIDER came into being in the Swedish city of Karlstad the mid-90s, they followed early in the mighty wake of desert and stoner rock that KYUSS had left after abandoning their ship in 1995. A split LP with NEBULA in 1998 and a 7″ with SPARZANZA the same year paved the way for the debut album “Ode to Io”, which quickly became canonical in the fast growing stoner scene. After a long hiatus, the Swedes re-appeared live on stage in 2013 and have since performed at every major European festival the genre has to offer. Their as eagerly as long-awaited sophomore full-length “Refractions” brought LOWRIDER back to the centre of attention of the scene and critical acclaim in 2020. Following the pandemic enforced break, the Scandinavian quartet is firmly back on track and ready to spread frying guitars, fuzzy riffing, and red-hot heaviness around the globe.
The seed for ELEPHANT TREE was planted in a rehearsal space somewhere in the smelly back alleys of England’s sleepless capital of London in 2013. There, the first notes of what would become ‘Attack of the Altaica’ sprang from the bass of Jack Townley and Sam Hart’s drums. It is fitting that this earliest demo became the opening track of the band’s latest rarities collection “Handful of Ten”, which was released on September 6, 2024. The infectious blend of warm, syrupy fuzz and soaring vocal harmonies on the demo ‘Attack of the Altaica’ captured the ears of Magnetic Eye Records. Soon a contract was signed and the debut full-length “Theia” was released in September 2014 and has just been reissued as “Theia” (Anniversary Edition). The hardworking Englishmen followed up with the self-titled sophomore full-length “Elephant Tree” in 2015 and the second album carried ELEPHANT TREE across the Atlantic to perform at the tastemaker Psycho Las Vegas. The pandemic left the band’s third album “Habits” (2020) without the support it deserved and it has also been reissued via Magnetic Eye to make it worlwide available again.
JETHRO TULL are musical giants with a unique sound – or rather sounds that have remained singular in the canon of rock music. Founded in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967 by the Scotsman Ian Anderson, the band has undergone several stylistic shifts and changes of image during their still ongoing career of many decades. Yet largely due to the characteristic voice of their frontman and the inclusion of a flute as an essential instrument, JETHRO TULL have always had an inimitable and easily recognisable trademark sonic fingerprint.
JETHRO TULL pushed the limits of what defines rock music from the start. Elements of classical music, jazz, and traditional music such as compound time signatures have led to the band being classified as art rock and later progressive rock – among a host of other terms. The British legend has managed to balance the tightrope between art, wide appeal and commercial success with seeming ease. This was helped by the outstanding showmanship of Ian Anderson, whose stagecraft and performances even rivalled his contemporary, the iconic British singer Arthur Brown.
Magnetic Eye’s Redux Series was created to pay homage to classic albums from across music history. The label has charged themselves as chroniclers and archivists to contribute to keeping the memory of outstanding artists and records alive and transfer their music to the sound of new generations. Heavy music has always experienced evolution in many directions, but the idea that a band led by an eccentric, mercurial Scotsman who integrated art pieces, social critiques, off-kilter humour and yes, even a flute, proved to be delightfully appealing and finally irresistible.
That eccentric geniuses such as JETHRO TULL could become one of the most memorable and recognisable acts of the 1970s that continued to amaze throughout the next decades very much shows what a fun and crazy time those early days of rock’s exploration were.
With “Aqualung Redux” and “Best of Jethro Tull Redux”, Magnetic Eye pay heavy tribute to the original art rock masters through an array of renditions by bands both iconic and new. JETHRO TULL were singular and a band even just similar might never come into existence today, but it is cool as hell that their legacy continues to live on more than five decades later. Magnetic Eye proudly uphold and endorse their lasting greatness with this respectful homage.
The Magnetic Eye Redux Series and its companion volumes feature hand-picked classic albums from across the history of rock and metal re-imagined in their entirety from start to finish. Artists we love from within and outside the heavy rock landscape choose tracks to make their own, bringing these milestone records into the new millennium with crushing heaviness and searing energy. To date, we’ve produced Redux editions of PINK FLOYD’s “The Wall”, HELMET’s “Meantime”, BLACK SABBATH’s “Vol. 4”, HENDRIX’s “Electric Ladyland”, ALICE IN CHAINS’ “Dirt”, AC/DC’s “Back in Black”, and SOUNDGARDEN’s “Superunknown” which have included renowned artists such as RED FANG, MATT PIKE, PALLBEARER, THE MELVINS, ALL THEM WITCHES, KHEMMIS, ASG, SUPERSUCKERS, ZAKK WYLDE, MARK LANEGAN, RUBY THE HATCHET, among many others.
Join us for our eighth foray into Redux territory as we pay proper respect to the unique British rock legends JETHRO TULL!
Artist: Various Artists Album: Best of Jethro Tull Redux Label: Magnetic Eye Records Style: Doom, Stoner Rock & Metal, Psych Rock et al. Release date: December 6, 2024
Formats “Best of Jethro Tull Redux” is available as a gatefold red gold vinyl LP, a gatefold marbled sea-blue, black & dark-green vinyl LP, and a gatefold black vinyl LP, and as a Digisleeve CD.
