Of Queues and Cures is the second album recorded by the progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 and jazz fusion

Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

 group National Health

National Health

National Health were a progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band included members of keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh, the band also included guitarists Phil Miller and Phil Lee and bassist Mont...

, one of the last representatives of the artistically prolific Canterbury scene

Canterbury Scene

The Canterbury scene is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s...

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Track listing

1. "The Bryden Two-Step (For Amphibians), Pt. 1" (Dave Stewart) - 8:54
2. "The Collapso" (Stewart) - 6:19
3. "Squarer for Maud" (John Greaves
   John Greaves (musician)
   John Greaves is a British bass guitarist and composer, best known as a member of Henry Cow and his collaborative albums with Peter Blegvad...
   
   ) - 11:51
4. "Dreams Wide Awake" (Phil Miller
   Phil Miller
   Phil Miller is an English progressive rock/jazz guitarist who was part of the Canterbury scene.He was a member of the bands Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Short Wave and has since worked in solo projects and in his band In Cahoots, which he founded in 1982...
   
   ) - 8:50
5. "Binoculars" (Pip Pyle
   Pip Pyle
   Phillip "Pip" Pyle was an English-born drummer from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who later resided in France...
   
   ) - 11:45
6. Phlakaton" (Pyle) - 0:09
7. "The Bryden Two-Step (For Amphibians), Pt. 2" (Stewart) - 5:31

Personnel

• John Greaves
  John Greaves (musician)
  John Greaves is a British bass guitarist and composer, best known as a member of Henry Cow and his collaborative albums with Peter Blegvad...
  
   - Bass, Vocals
• Phil Miller
  Phil Miller
  Phil Miller is an English progressive rock/jazz guitarist who was part of the Canterbury scene.He was a member of the bands Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Short Wave and has since worked in solo projects and in his band In Cahoots, which he founded in 1982...
  
   - Guitar
• Pip Pyle
  Pip Pyle
  Phillip "Pip" Pyle was an English-born drummer from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who later resided in France...
  
   - Drums, Handclapping, Percussion
• Dave Stewart - Keyboards

Also:

• Selwyn Baptiste - Drums, Drums (Steel)
• Rick Biddulph - Bass, Keyboards
• Peter Blegvad
  Peter Blegvad
  Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums...
  
   - Vocals, Voices
• Georgie Born - Bass, Cello, Vocals
• Mike Dunne - Engineer, Producer
• Brian Gaylor - Engineer
• Jimmy Hastings
  Jimmy Hastings
  James Brian Gordon 'Jimmy' Hastings , is a British professional musician associated with the Canterbury scene....
  
   - Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Flute, Wind
• Phil Minton
  Phil Minton
  Phil Minton is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's...
  
   - Trumpet
• Paul Nieman - Trombone
• Keith Thompson - Oboe

Reception

The Allmusic review by Dave Lynch awarded the album 4 stars and states "Of Queues & Cures is one of the last and finest examples of the instrumental Canterbury sound on record during the 1970s.".