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Out There

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If any contemporary band on the Now-Again label necessitated the designation of a vibe rather than a genre, it’s The Heliocentrics, the psych-jazz-funk-break-and-so-on ensemble built around a core of musicians (chiefly drummer Malcolm Catto, bassist Jake Ferguson, and multi-instrumentalist Jack Yglesias) who can express free-flowing improvisational journeys at the same time they keep everything (poly)rhythmically on point. Out There is a magnificent debut and an example of retrofuturism done right, sounding like yesterday’s tomorrow today — an acid-soul mutation that escapes the orbit of “world music” because there are no borders in space.

Nate Patrin

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