UNDER WRAPS

A lot of people are here complaining about the "dated" sound of this album. For Tull to release an album trying to sound like 1972 back in 1984 would have been dated. Truly sit back and listen to the album, the songs are excellent, the instrumentation is just different from their norm. That's the progress part in progressive rock, not doing the same thing over and over again ya know. Vocally this was the last great Tull album, Ian says he never sounded better, singing these songs is what destroyed his vocal chords unfortunately. If he were to take the vocal/bass/guitar tracks and redo the album with real drums and less new wave keys it would end up being praised as the best Tull release since Broadsword.