Sea Shanties is a ferocious and underrated cornerstone of proto-metal and progressive rock, delivered by UK band High Tide with a force that still sounds somewhat unhinged today. Tony Hill’s heavy, distorted guitar riffs clash brilliantly with Simon House’s electric violin, creating a stormy, almost chaotic energy that was far ahead of its time. The songs are long, winding, and dark, full of doomy atmosphere and aggressive playing that prefigures both King Crimson and Black Sabbath in different ways. brooding, psychedelic, and punishing - this album is bananas.
2009 US reissue from Sundazed Music/Liberty and it’s a lovely reissue. Found this copy at a shop called Red Onion Records in Washington DC a few years back. Telling y’all, record shops in DC are some of the best I’ve seen in the US in my decades of traveling picking up albums wherever I go.
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