Holland by The Beach Boys

Holland, the Beach Boys' nineteenth studio album, came out on Brother/Reprise on January 8, 1973, and it was a wildly expensive record to make. In the summer of 1972 the band and their entourage moved to a barn in Baambrugge, outside Amsterdam, and had their Los Angeles studio dismantled, crated, shipped across the ocean and bolted back together there, at an estimated $250,000. Only the basic tracks were cut in the Dutch countryside; the job was finished late that year at Village Recorders back in LA.

Carl Wilson was steering, alongside manager Jack Rieley, for the last time. Bruce Johnston was gone, while Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar were back for a second record. The result is soft rock with a progressive, wandering streak, anchored by the singles "Sail On, Sailor" and "California Saga/California", plus a bonus EP, Mount Vernon and Fairway, a 12-minute fairy tale from Brian and Carl. Reviews were generally kind, and the band then went two years without making much in the studio.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.