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The Quietus vault has been cracked open once more, we’ve wandered in, and lo! here are some long-forgotten treats being given a week of air in The Portal. We’ve got a couple of Baker’s Dozens, this week from the wonderful Neneh Cherry and sax master Mats Gustafsson. There’s a Strange World of… guide to the music of Crass records, plus (given that you all loved this weekend’s article on how America killed Hawkwind) an archive interview with Nik Turner. Read Graham Massey telling the story of 808 State’s Blueprint anthology in his own words, and a reappraisal of Outkast’s debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. With the role of the critic always up for discussion these days, we’ve an article by Andrew Mueller on what happens when a musician is a reviewer, and vice versa. From the Black Sky Thinking archive, a feature on how a major label managed to lose and album by John Coltrane, and to finish things off, our Albums of the Year from 2013. The Best of 2024 list will be published on tQ imminently.
Andrew Mueller is a travel writer, foreign correspondent, columnist, pundit and author. He has also been a rock critic for donkey's and has been in a country rock band The Blazing Zoo for nigh on a decade. We asked him if the former had given him any insights into the latter...
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