More Specials (Vinyl LP) Folk & Americana

More Specials (Vinyl LP) Folk & AmericanaThe Specials were formed in Coventry in 1977 as The Coventry Automatics. True innovators of the punk era, the band began the British ska revival craze, combining the highly danceable ska and rocksteadybeat with punk's energy and attitude. The Specials had seven consecutive UK Top 10 singles between 1979 and 1981, including the number 1 hits Too Much Too Young and Ghost Town. The band's second album More Specials (UK No. 5, 1980) was a change in

released on 27 November 1981 by Some Bizzare Records

Dons Savage's stellar songwriting

It was a short respite

Little Rich Girl (with fabulous sax solos from Madness' Lee Thompson)

From bossa nova

from the dynamic title track onwards

These are recordings from the Here Comes The Cowboy sessions that did not make the album

cut finely with an almost Lo-Fi production aesthetic with a broken beat backbone and an electro edge

Closing out the EP "Telescope" features real orbital sounds

pin-sharp and chorus-free lyrical deluge

Mahaleo's Izahay Mpamita showcases the band's powerful folk sound

Volume 2 from the Tropical Disco camp