“Too Much Pressure” by Selecter

"Too Much Pressure" is the song the Selecter named their debut album after, a record 2 Tone put out in February 1980, not long after the Coventry band had officially formed in 1979. Neol Davies, the guitarist who founded the group, wrote both the words and the music, just as he wrote most of the album's originals; the rest of the LP leaned on ska and reggae covers, much like the Specials' first record.

The album came together once "On My Radio" became a hit and the band's labels, 2 Tone and Chrysalis, asked for a full-length. The Selecter spent two months at Horizon Studios with producer Errol Ross, and the title track carries all the wound-up, jittery urgency of a new band racing to keep up with its own moment.

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