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Hercules and Love Affair | 
 enlarge | Artist: Hercules And Love Affair
Label: Mute U.S.
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 4208
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 69392
UPC: 724596939222
EAN: 0724596939222
ASIN: B00193PV24
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Time Will | | • | Hercules Theme | | • | You Belong | | • | Athene | | • | Blind [Full Album Version] | | • | Iris | | • | Easy | | • | This Is My Love | | • | Raise Me Up | | • | True False/Fake Real | | • | Classique #2 | | • | Roar | | • | Bonus video for 'Blind' |
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Album Description
2008 debut album from the Electro outfit led by Andrew Butler and featuring Antony (from Antony & The Johnsons), Nomi, and Kim Ann. Andrew Butler emerged from making music for college-based dance projects into a fully-fledged recording artist, via the New York art scene. He hooked up with his friends and got them to collaborate and sing his songs and Hercules & Love Affair is the result. This album is 2008's most exciting dancefloor concoction, an arthouse vision of Pure Pop by way of futuristic Electronica and classic Dance music, where beautiful, bruising harmonies and tensile rhythms collide in resurgent soundscapes and emotive Disco workouts. The album is co-produced by Andrew Butler with Tim Goldsworthy of DFA at Plantain Studios in the midst of Manhattan, New York City. Contains bonus video for "Blind".
Album Description
2008 debut album from the Electro outfit led by Andrew Butler and featuring Antony (from Antony & The Johnsons), Nomi, and Kim Ann. Andrew Butler emerged from making music for college-based dance projects into a fully-fledged recording artist, via the New York art scene. He hooked up with his friends and got them to collaborate and sing his songs and Hercules & Love Affair is the result. This album is 2008's most exciting dancefloor concoction, an arthouse vision of Pure Pop by way of futuristic Electronica and classic Dance music, where beautiful, bruising harmonies and tensile rhythms collide in resurgent soundscapes and emotive Disco workouts. The album is co-produced by Andrew Butler with Tim Goldsworthy of DFA at Plantain Studios in the midst of Manhattan, New York City. DFA.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
An excellent effort November 21, 2008
M. Flynn (Los Angeles, CA, US)
Disclosure: I'm a big fan of Antony and the Johnsons, but I picked up the album not knowing that he was featured on it.
Review: I was hooked from the first track ("Time Will"), which is stellar. Antony's voice is excellently paired with the electronic backdrop, and the tracks without him stand well on their own as well. The album might have benefited from a bit more editing (e.g. the closing track "True False / Fake Real"), but in general it's engaging and well-composed.
Bottom-line: This album's was quickly bumped up to my "regular listen" list several weeks ago, and it's still there today. Two thumbs up.
 I finally found them! September 29, 2008
Gordon Kane (Upland California)
I saw "Blind" on Subterranean months ago, and was blown away by the video, the visualizations, and of course, the girl.
Here's the rub. I watch and record shows like this to keep up (sorta) on new music and if I like a genre, sound and video, I will most likely buy the music. The problem was that the title info at the beginning and end of the video said "undefined" for all the fields, like artist name, song name and produced by-etc.
I was beside myself. I needed to know who made this awesome video and hauntingly beautiful sound, and all I had to go on was "undefined" I went to my local indie record store and had them do a search of "undefined", what I "thought" was the possible title from what I "thought" an oft repeated line in the song was-no luck. I did a search of that nights Subterranean on MTV2, and it listed all the videos it showed but did NOT list mine.
Then I saw it on another Subterranean a month or so later, and was so excited to see it again, and guess what? Yep, it had the information for all the videos on that nights show and not this one again.
Needless to say, another search of the website and I saw a small black and white picture of the girl and bingo, I was in the Hercules appreciation fan club finally.
"Blind" brought me in to the fold, and there are many other really attractive songs on the album and I really enjoy listening to it. There are a couple of songs I can live without, but I enjoy finding new music of different styles. I grew up with the Beatles and it is more and more challenging to try to stay current with the sounds of today. I like indie stuff probably most. Anyway, maybe this isn't a 5 star but I would love to see them live. With the girl please!
 The Formula is a Total Fiasco August 14, 2008
SomeGuySomewhere (USA)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
Dear Antony:
Please do another album where your voice quivers into uncharted emotional territory over your beautiful piano playing. You are no disco queen. Stay in your original genre. Even the song writing is bad on this.
A Fan
Hercules and the Love Affair August 4, 2008
Utsav Dhawan (New York, USA)
Lovely! If you don't like or know much about disco, check this out anyway because it is fine and fun. Everyone needs a litte Hercules and the Love Affair.
Peace
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME! July 27, 2008
D. Lipp (NYC)
As someone who's not too impressed with the dance music coming out nowadays, after hearing Hercules And Love Affair, I'm happy to say I was blown away. As a fan of Antony and the Johnsons and the DFA label, seeing these two work together, along with other fantastic new artists on this album, under the guidance of ringleader Andy Butler, a DJ making big waves on the dance scene here in NYC, together they take the groove of disco and add over 30 years of electronic and dance music progress to it, creating one of the most inventive albums in a long while. "Blind" is a total blast from the disco past, and hearing Antony sing over dance music rather than his slower paced solo work, is completely refreshing, and he makes it work beautifully. While also touching on dance music from all over the place including the 80s and much of the 70s, Hercules and the Love Affair is worth picking up and dancing to all summer long!
--DaVe Lipp
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