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  • Summary: The fourth full-length release for the British psychedelic jazz collective features the vocals of Barbora Patkova.
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Made Of The Sun
Every piece of the puzzle falls into one I'm made of the flesh; I'm made of the sun Sketchbook falls wide open, just be like a child How could we be... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. The Wire
    Aug 8, 2017
    80
    A good bit stranger-sounding and more interesting in their excavation of the past. [Jul 2017, p.53]
  2. Mojo
    May 25, 2017
    80
    Meditative, twitchy, cerebral, the Heliocentrics are at once timeless and of the now. [Jul 2017, p.93]
  3. 80
    It’s an engrossing set throughout, leading one through the subdued swirls of “Dawn Chorus” to the climax of “The Uncertainty Principle”, another work whose throbbing organ and cavernous twang owe a distinct debt to Can.
  4. Jun 7, 2017
    80
    The Heliocentrics' most beguiling effort to date.
  5. Uncut
    May 25, 2017
    70
    There's an exotic, silk-road feel to her [singer Barbora Patkova's] spectral ululations, often delivered in her native language, that work brilliantly on the seven-minute title track, but can feel samey across a full album. [Jul 2017, p.30]
  6. Jun 12, 2017
    70
    A World of Masks can be a difficult album to take in all at once, but if you have the time and the focus, it can take your brain places you won’t find on any other album.
  7. Jun 5, 2017
    70
    The Heliocentrics, then, are in a good place. They continue to build on their obvious ability as musical chameleons, evading capture as they flit from one musical style and approach to another, with hip hop and psychedelia as their common ground.

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