| Hatfield and the North | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Hatfield and the North |
| Cover: | Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North album cover.jpg |
| Released: | February 1974 |
| Recorded: | October 1973 – January 1974 |
| Genre: | Progressive rock, Canterbury scene |
| Label: | Virgin |
| Producer: | Hatfield and the North Tom Newman |
| Next Title: | The Rotters' Club |
| Next Year: | 1975 |
Hatfield and the North is the first album by the English Canterbury scene rock band Hatfield and the North, released in February 1974.
In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #34 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".[1]
The cover of the original vinyl release was designed by Laurie Lewis. The front and back outer cover is a panoramic photograph of Reykjavík, with the sky on the right merged with a transparency of a 15th-16th century fresco in Orvieto Cathedral by Luca Signorelli, "The Damned".The inside gatefold is a collage that includes photographs of the personnel and guests involved in the music, the cast of the TV show Bonanza, together with a cropped photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue of a man throwing a dog.[2]
The 1987 CD re-release of the album added two bonus tracks, the A- and B-sides of a 1974 single, previously available on the 1980 compilation Afters:
The 2009 Esoteric Recordings reissue (ECLEC2139) also included the above, along with a further bonus track:
Taken from the Virgin Records Sampler (VD 2502) from January 1975.