Whilst my love of The Specials is well known to any visitors of this site I have struggled over the past few years with the band's determination to continue in the face of the fact that the band look less like The Specials than ever before. And in this I mean no disrespect.... less face it The Stranglers, The Damned and SLF can boast but two original members and The Specials retain three. Nevertheless, with the loss of Neville, Roddy and sadly Brad, the sound of the band changed inevitably. And this is what we have here with The Specials as they are now. With 'Encore' you have a highly accomplished album with some really good tracks on it. It is The Specials it but doesn't necessarily sound like them on half of the album.... and that's fine and justified by the passage of 39 years since 'More Specials'... so why on Earth would anyone expect it to sound the same!
Back in '79 The Specials tackled intolerance which they continue to do all be it in a more reflective and mature manner that comes with being 40 years older!
God bless 'em!!
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