High Tide made their first recordings as the backing band on Denny Gerrard's album Sinister Morning.
[1] During the late 1970s, Hill and House recorded Interesting Times as a duo,[2] taking turns playing bass and using a drum machine to replace Roger Hadden.
The first retrospective release, Precious Cargo, consists of sessions recorded in 1970 by the original group, but their exact nature is not specified.
[4] One song, "The Great Universal Confidence Trick" (mislabeled on the album as "Exploration"), had been recorded for Sea Shanties but went unreleased at the time due to space constraints.
In September 2023, Esoteric released The Complete Liberty Recordings, a 3CD compilation in a clamshell box with the first two albums and a third disc titled Demos & Studios Sessions 1969 & 1970.
Allmusic author, Wilson Neate, stated of the group, "High Tide had the muscularity of a no-nonsense proto-metal band, but they also ventured into prog territory with changing time signatures and tempos, soft-hard dynamics, multi-part arrangements, and even some ornate faux-Baroque interludes".