THE SELECTER - Too Much Pressure (40th Anniversary Half-Speed Master Edition) [Repress] a-m-umc to a stranger

to a stranger

inexhaustible wealth of ideas and instinctive feel for hooks and melodies

It opens with a robotic train announcement from Hartsfield Airport—iconic to many Atlanta natives—that used to frighten Fisher when he was a child

“The Sharecropper’s Daughter speaks to my father’s actual beginnings on a Virginia tobacco farm where his family sharecropped

who died in a bus crash in Sweden during the album’s promotional tour

THE SELECTER - Too Much Pressure (40th Anniversary Half-Speed Master Edition) [Repress] a-m-umc to a strangerLP 40th Anniversary Half Speed Master Edition Clear Vinyl Repress with printed inner sleeve. The Selecter were one of the key bands of the ska revival in the late 70s and one of the few racially and sexually integrated bands on the scene. Vocalist Pauline Black wrote about sexism, racism, and social issues. Their debut release was the AA side of The Specials single Gangsters in the summer of 1979, which only consisted of Neol Davies and John Bradbury