The Hollies - Butterfly (2016) [Hi-Res]

Butterfly was released in 1967 and was the last to feature Graham Nash until 1983's What Goes Around. The album features songs written solely by Allan Clarke, Graham Nash, and Tony Hicks.

The Hollies are an English rock group known for their pioneering and distinctive three part vocal harmony style. They became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s (231 weeks on the UK singles charts during the 1960s; the 9th highest of any artist of the decade) and into the mid 1970s. The group was formed by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash in late 1962 as a Merseybeat type music group in Manchester, although some of the band members came from towns north of there. Graham Nash left the group in 1968 to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash.

„This late 1967 album found the Hollies making some modest adjustments to the psychedelic era: occasionally trippy studio effects, a sitar on their most psychedelic track ("Maker"), songs that didn't always deal with boy-girl relationships. In fact, however, the group's focus remained where it usually was: modest but pleasing, similar-sounding catchy tunes with high harmonies and strumming guitars. It's not remarkable or essential, but it's certainly pleasant enough, and a bit better than their earlier 1967 LP, Evolution, with some of their better album-only cuts ("Postcard," "Pegasus," "Butterfly," "Away Away Away"). With some track alterations, the record was issued in the U.S. as Dear Eloise/King Midas in Reverse; the U.K. edition, as collectors should note, has a few songs that were never released in the States ("Pegasus," "Elevated Observations?," "Try It“).“ (Richie Unterberger, AMG)

Allan Clarke, vocals, harmonica
Tony Hicks, lead guitar, vocals
Graham Nash, rhythm guitar, vocals
Bernie Calvert, bass
Bobby Elliott, drums

Recorded 5 September – 6 October 1967 at Abbey Road Studios, London
Produced by Ron Richards

Digitally remastered