Category: Barclay James Harvest

Barclay James Harvest, funny kind of name. The band originally seemed destined for great things, releasing two albums of psychedelic/progressive rock under the…

The band’s first full-length record was produced by Norman Smith, engineered by Phil McDonald and recorded in Abbey Road Studios—ideal circumstances for an…

The third time really wasn’t all that much of a charm for BJH. I was prepared for Once Again again, but it never…

Barclay James Harvest would achieve fame as purveyors of pastoral, orchestrated progressive rock featuring fantasy and science fiction themes, a journey they begin…

This is an early compilation that collects several of the band’s standalone singles plus select tracks from their first, second and third albums….

For years, I was ambivalent about this record, but it seems I may have thrown the moonwater out with the baffling baby theme….

Sporting a title that only a Nektar fan could love, BJH’s first album for Polydor is handily the best thing they’ve done since…

BJH Live sums up their most prolific progressive period with a double-album, double exclamation point. If you were ever going to make the…

If my affections for BJH are marked by an arid inconstancy, it’s because of albums like this. I thought EIEE was a terrific…

As others have pointed out, the album’s title is a clever amalgam of Oberon (the fairy king from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream),…

This is opportunism, plain and simple. As BJH began to sell more records, Harvest (the label) decided to get in on the delayed…

After years of musical chairs, BJH finally found a sympathetic producer in themselves. Gone To Earth continued Octoberon’s winning ways with its unique…

XII marks the 12th anniversary of Barclay James Harvest. Sadly, it also marks the end of an era, as Woolly (he of the…

This actually does a better job of distilling the band’s best early material than the first volume, although neither was trying too hard….

BJH’s 11th album is basically XII minus the musical contributions of Woolly, which still adds up to a pretty solid record. With sequencers…