Since their first appearance on The Outsider by DJ Shadow in 2006, the Heliocentrics haven't ceased their wild careening course, taking in jazz, Ethio-jazz, hip-hop, psychedelic music, kraut-rock and musique concrète. The London-based crew, led by drummer/producer Malcolm Catto has even crossed swords with figures as diverse as Mulatu Astake, Orlando Julius, Melvin Van Peebles and Gaslamp Killer, and has been hailed by Madlib and even David Axelrod. The group, originally instrumental, which works out of its vintage analogue studio in East London, the Quatermass Sound Lab, invited in a singer for World Of Masks: a young Slovak named Barbora Patkova alias Babs. The result is a fourth album, which draws the Heliocentrics, who were already solid and rich in grooves and rhythms, onto the path of other, as-yet-unexplored, and addictive, dimensions. © MD/Qobuz