ossory
The Sweet Trade's opener recasts the Golden Age of Piracy as a mass redundancy: the 1713 peace lays off the navy and voids the privateers' commissions, and thousands of out-of-work sailors go "on the account" -- signing the articles, working for shares, no prey no pay -- with the fall already waiting at Gallows Point.
On the Account
Style
A rousing traditional sea shanty with folk fusion at a steady, marching ~104 BPM compound pace, led by a weathered gravelly male shantyman answered by a full communal crew in call-and-response, built on concertina, melodeon, fiddle, tin whistle, bodhran and a low drone, in a dry, warm, belowdecks production that swells from a single voice to the whole deck singing as one.