High Tide (album) explained

High Tide
Type:studio
Artist:High Tide
Cover:High Tide (album).jpg
Released:July 1970
Recorded:5 April – 6 May 1970
Studio:Morgan Studios, London
Genre:Progressive rock, folk rock, art rock, hard rock
Length:32:21
Label:Liberty
Producer:High Tide
Prev Title:Sea Shanties
Prev Year:1969
Next Title:Interesting Times
Next Year:1989

High Tide is the second album by High Tide. The album is slightly less heavy, with folk-influences within the band's sound. Though guitarist Tony Hill would later record with a new band under the High Tide banner, as well as releasing posthumous compilations of demos, this was the last proper album by the original group.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Wilson Neate awarded the album 3 stars stating "The interplay of guitarist Tony Hill and violinist Simon House is still very much at the core of High Tide's distinctive hybrid of psychedelia, prog, and hard rock, but while Hill lays down his characteristically intricate, searing guitar lines, he forgoes the sort of weighty, molten riffage that made Sea Shanties such a behemoth. Without that overall sonic density, this album fails to engage listeners as readily as its predecessor... alongside Sea Shanties, this unimaginatively titled, three-track, 32-minute album finds High Tide at a disappointing low ebb, as if ideas and energy were already drying up."[1]

Track listing

All tracks by High Tide except where noted.

Personnel

High Tide

Notes and References

  1. Neate, W. Allmusic Review accessed February 7, 2011