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The Specials, Encore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It might have come out the blue, in the eyes of the fans and the casual listener a return of a sound, the unexpected and impromptu, unassailable positive siren like melody that comes from the most feverish of expressions; out of the blue but tremendously welcome and yet arguably a sadness in that was thought diminished in the U.K., has become a battle ground to which The Specials have to stand their ground and open fire with scintillating progressive thought.