VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCE

Barclay James Harvest in the Eighties. The old and symphonic Barclay is gone. Now the band are in days of melodic and sometimes commercial pop-rock. In this album , like the others albums before "XII", there are good songs and bad songs. Because of this, the music is not always good. The highlights of this album are: "For Your Love" (beautiful love song with orchestral arragments), "Sideshow" (John Lee's folk) and the ballad "I've Got Feeling". The rest of the album is more weak but "Victims" and "Say you'll Stay" have good vocals and arragments. In this album, BJH have a new: female vocals. For me, is not a good choice. More weak than "Ring of Chances" it'is a album for the fans.