"Heart Of The Congos is, together with Bob Marley and the Wailers' Natty Dread, Burning Spear's Marcus Garvey and The Mighty Diamonds' Right Time, a defining statement of Jamaican vocal group artistry in the seventies. By virtue of its thematic coherence, superb musicianship, beautiful vocals, it is exemplary roots music of the highest order. It is also the most perfectly realised album to come from Lee Perry's Black Ark." (Steve Barrow)