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Join us on Vero, as we get under the skin of global cultural happenings. Though just three of the original band are present on ‘Encore’Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace. The Specials’ first official album since 1980 is a rich collection of eclectic pop that covers funk, ska and reggae with great energy and verve. Remarkably, it’s everything we’d want from a Specials album in 2019… and more. The Specials - Encore (Album Review) Tuesday, 05 February 2019. After 37 years from the release of Ghost Town, The Specials are back with Terry Hall, Lynval Golding, Horace Panter and co with this modern uptake on life in Britain and how it’s.
Having lost Jerry Dammers, Neville Staple, and Roddy Radiation since their reformation, and with drummer John Bradbury dying in 2015, the cards were stacked against the band – yet from the very first note ‘Encore’ is superb, a joyous, addictive experience. The Specials: Encore - Album Review The Specials. Retaining the pop immediacy that has always made them so striking The Specials are able to root this in contemporary issues, challenging themselves and the culture around them at every turn. Her vocal on ‘Ten Commandments’ flips the mysoginistic lyrics of the Prince Buster original, calling out sexist views in mainstream culture and everyday life while The Specials’ developed a spaced out, psych-tinged dub groove. Terry Hall is strikingly open about mental health issues on ‘The Life And Times (Of A Man Called Depression)’, and perhaps the album’s most striking guest spot belongs to Saffiyah Khan, the activist who faced down an EDL facist wearing a Specials t-shirt.
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I figure this is a pretty important occasion in our subculture, so if youve listened to Encore, feel free to discuss it here. Lynval Goulding reflects on his parents’ experiences as Caribbean immigrants on ‘B.L.M.’ - Black Lives Matter, it’s a statement that these stories of Black British history, and Black British community, should never be forgotten, minimised, or discarded. The Specials newest album Encore dropped today - their first studio album in 18 years, their first album of original material in 21 years and their first album with Terry Hall sulking behind the microphone in 39 years. Opening with a cover of The Equals’ plea for peace ‘Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys’ the album is at its most affecting when it becomes personal.
Indeed, political spectres haunt ‘Encore’ in its entirety. ‘Vote For Me’ is a rock solid groove, it’s slinking reggae rhythm underpining a wonderfully deadpan vocal from Terry Hall, in which he ruthlessly dissects the bankrupt motivations of a political class intent on driving British hopes and ambitions off a cliff-edge.
It comes after those lengthy re-union tours, and more than a little of this energy is sprinkled on ‘Encore’. Impressive stuff.The Specials’ first album in four decades, it’s a ruthlessly entertaining, hugely outspoken, inspired and inspiring experience, one that doffs its cap to those iconic opening statements while remaining resolutely rooted in 2019. While nobody’s vocal can compare with the bowel-shaking timbre of the late Leonard Cohen, Hall delivers a more than passable version of ‘Everybody Knows’. Talented young Bradford singer Hannah Hu takes over lead vocals on Talking Heads’ ‘Listening Wind’, over a Saharan melody that oozes yearning, while guitarist Lynval Golding sings on a powerful acoustic version of Bob Marley’s anthemic ‘Get Up, Stand Up’. The years have been kind to Terry Hall’s voice, which sounds even more expressive than their first iteration, back in the 1980s. They successfully reclaim Big Bill Broonzy’s 1938 anti-racism anthem, ‘Black, Brown And White’, which was misused by Britain’s National Front in the 1970s, although its powerful lyrics feel slightly at odds with the breezy skiffle arrangement. The spiritual ‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around’ is a standard from the US civil rights movement, where handclaps, foot-taps and the power of the human voice send your neck-hairs skywards, before a cowpunk guitar blasts into earshot. Currently enjoying a second creative coming following 2019’s Encore, legendary 2 Tone act The Specials celebrate almost 100 years of protest songs, which vary wildly in tone, from the powerful anti-war polemic of ‘Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes’ to the jet-black humour of Chip Taylor’s ‘Fuck All The Perfect People’.
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