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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724596939222
Format: Enhanced
Label: Mute U.S.
Manufacturer: Mute U.S.
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mute U.S.
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Sales Rank: 4171
Studio: Mute U.S.
Disc 1:- 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'.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - An excellent effort
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.
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Rating:  - I finally found them!
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - The Formula is a Total Fiasco
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
Rating: - Hercules and the Love Affair
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
Rating: - AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!
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 ... Read More
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EAN: 0724596939222
Format: Enhanced
Label: Mute U.S.
Manufacturer: Mute U.S.
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mute U.S.
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Sales Rank: 4171
Studio: Mute U.S.