A fantastic review/overview by All About Jazz’s John Kelman of two of my favourite Canterbury Scene albums: National Health’s National Health and Of Queues and Cures:

Esoteric’s timely reissues of these two National Health discs are a strong reminder of just how important [keyboardist Dave] Stewart was at a time when there were few, if any rules and it was not just acceptable, but demanded to pursue all avenues to their logical conclusions . . . and, often, beyond. Esoteric’s forthcoming Hatfield and the North reissues will, no doubt, bolster this belief even further, providing further evidence that it was and remains possible to create music of great compositional depth without resorting to excessive self-indulgence or over-consideration.

At a time when national health is on every yanqui’s mind, the only national health that anyone should be paying attention to is of the musical kind from late ’70s England.