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Album opener "Assessment," a gently rolling rocker, culminates with a concise but convoluted freak-out programes driven by guitarist-vocalist Steve Mason's sticky-fingered rhythm and a wall of horns that simultaneously evokes Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" and "Tonight," by Supergrass. The interlude is so programes packed with stop-start surprises and whimsical flourishes that its anticlimactic ending only makes you wince a little bit. Same for "Liquid Bird," a programes dubby micro-epic that runs on Mason's gated-delay guitar mindfuck and drummer Robin Jones' fluid variable-tempo breakbeats. As with most of the album, the song's meaty means justify its clunky end: Heroes maintains such a ferocious level of synaptic activity that you can't help but wonder if the Betas are simply saving the compelling conclusions for touring time, like Luscious Jackson in reverse.
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