Red Tide

Red Tide Final Solution cassette

Yahoo! This is great! Very hot, energetic, innovative, multi-influenced punk with intelligent, realistic lyrics. Definitely put this on your Christmas list.

• Reviewer Walter Glaser
• Label Catapult
• Issue MRR #50 • July 1987

Red Tide Kelp and Salal EP

After all the trouble we had getting a decent-sounding remix version of “Incubator Slide” for our 1984 album, I half-expected the production on RED TIDE’s EP to be terrible. But they’ve ended up with a chunky drive and a lot of edge on the guitars so, despite the occasionally weird vocal sound, this record turned out pretty damn well. The guitar parts are really cool, and “Santa Mari Marushi” is hotter than hell.

• Reviewer Jeff Bale
• Label Toxic Shock
• Issue MRR #15 • July 1984

Red Tide Rundown cassette

Eleven more great songs from this Canadian unit. With their wicked delivery and tight, imaginative arrangements, these guys constitute one of the more talented young bands around today. Most of the songs are thrashers, but there’s some real weirdness in the vocals.

• Reviewer Tim Yohannan
• Label self-released
• Issue MRR #9 • October/November 1983

Red Tide Outta My Way cassette

An album’s worth of blistering political thrash from Canada. Structurally, there’s a lot of imaginative little quirks that serve to break up the tempo, so the high-powered songs don’t all run together. Very tight, very intelligent, and very worthwhile.

• Reviewer Jeff Bale
• Label self-released
• Issue MRR #7 • July/August 1983