Under Wraps (The Bruce Soord 2026 Remix)
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull's Under Wraps originally arrived in 1984 as one of the band's most divisive records — a sharp pivot away from the progressive folk-rock the group was known for, in favor of synth-pop textures, heavy keyboards, and the drum machine sounds of the era (primarily LinnDrum and Roland sequencer programming). As Ian Anderson himself noted, the intent was genuine experimentation: "With Under Wraps we wanted to try something completely new. It was about exploring the technology of the time." The album's cold, synthetic sheen left many longtime fans cold, and it has long occupied a complicated place in the Tull catalog — more admired in retrospect than it was on release.
The 2026 Drums remix, handled by Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief, approaches that contentious production history with a careful hand. Rather than replacing the drum machines with a live human drummer, Soord substitutes the original programmed sounds with MIDI-triggered samples that carry a warmer, more organic quality — preserving the mechanical architecture of the original while softening its most synthetic edges. The remix also brings Martin Barre's guitar forward in the mix, a rebalancing that gives the album a new sense of dynamic presence. Soord, who has previously crafted Dolby Atmos and surround mixes for acts including Leprous, TesseracT, Big Big Train, and Pure Reason Revolution, brings that same spatial attentiveness to what is his first remix of a mainline classic Tull studio album, as noted by The Second Disc.
Jethro Tull's Under Wraps originally arrived in 1984 as one of the band's most divisive records — a sharp pivot away from the progressive folk-rock the group was known for, in favor of synth-pop textures, heavy keyboards, and the drum machine sounds of the era (primarily LinnDrum and Roland sequencer programming). As Ian Anderson himself noted, the intent was genuine experimentation: "With Under Wraps we wanted to try something completely new. It was about exploring the technology of the time." The album's cold, synthetic sheen left many longtime fans cold, and it has long occupied a complicated place in the Tull catalog — more admired in retrospect than it was on release.
The 2026 Drums remix, handled by Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief, approaches that contentious production history with a careful hand. Rather than replacing the drum machines with a live human drummer, Soord substitutes the original programmed sounds with MIDI-triggered samples that carry a warmer, more organic quality — preserving the mechanical architecture of the original while softening its most synthetic edges. The remix also brings Martin Barre's guitar forward in the mix, a rebalancing that gives the album a new sense of dynamic presence. Soord, who has previously crafted Dolby Atmos and surround mixes for acts including Leprous, TesseracT, Big Big Train, and Pure Reason Revolution, brings that same spatial attentiveness to what is his first remix of a mainline classic Tull studio album, as noted by The Second Disc.
Under Wraps (The Bruce Soord 2026 Remix)
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull's Under Wraps originally arrived in 1984 as one of the band's most divisive records — a sharp pivot away from the progressive folk-rock the group was known for, in favor of synth-pop textures, heavy keyboards, and the drum machine sounds of the era (primarily LinnDrum and Roland sequencer programming). As Ian Anderson himself noted, the intent was genuine experimentation: "With Under Wraps we wanted to try something completely new. It was about exploring the technology of the time." The album's cold, synthetic sheen left many longtime fans cold, and it has long occupied a complicated place in the Tull catalog — more admired in retrospect than it was on release.
The 2026 Drums remix, handled by Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief, approaches that contentious production history with a careful hand. Rather than replacing the drum machines with a live human drummer, Soord substitutes the original programmed sounds with MIDI-triggered samples that carry a warmer, more organic quality — preserving the mechanical architecture of the original while softening its most synthetic edges. The remix also brings Martin Barre's guitar forward in the mix, a rebalancing that gives the album a new sense of dynamic presence. Soord, who has previously crafted Dolby Atmos and surround mixes for acts including Leprous, TesseracT, Big Big Train, and Pure Reason Revolution, brings that same spatial attentiveness to what is his first remix of a mainline classic Tull studio album, as noted by The Second Disc.
Jethro Tull's Under Wraps originally arrived in 1984 as one of the band's most divisive records — a sharp pivot away from the progressive folk-rock the group was known for, in favor of synth-pop textures, heavy keyboards, and the drum machine sounds of the era (primarily LinnDrum and Roland sequencer programming). As Ian Anderson himself noted, the intent was genuine experimentation: "With Under Wraps we wanted to try something completely new. It was about exploring the technology of the time." The album's cold, synthetic sheen left many longtime fans cold, and it has long occupied a complicated place in the Tull catalog — more admired in retrospect than it was on release.
The 2026 Drums remix, handled by Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief, approaches that contentious production history with a careful hand. Rather than replacing the drum machines with a live human drummer, Soord substitutes the original programmed sounds with MIDI-triggered samples that carry a warmer, more organic quality — preserving the mechanical architecture of the original while softening its most synthetic edges. The remix also brings Martin Barre's guitar forward in the mix, a rebalancing that gives the album a new sense of dynamic presence. Soord, who has previously crafted Dolby Atmos and surround mixes for acts including Leprous, TesseracT, Big Big Train, and Pure Reason Revolution, brings that same spatial attentiveness to what is his first remix of a mainline classic Tull studio album, as noted by The Second Disc.