Credits:

Hercules And Love Affair

Description:

HERCULES&LOVE AFFAIR, the musical project of Andy Butler, a DJ active in New York's underground dance scene, returns to the scene with its first new album in five years! The album is a dance-pop album of the 2020s, featuring the collaboration with ANOHNI, which has not been done since their debut album. Analog copies will be released at the same time! HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR is the musical project of Andy Butler, a DJ active in New York's underground dance scene. With a retro-futuristic sound reminiscent of the frenzy and groove of the legendary disco Paradise Garage, HERCULES&LOVE AFFAIR has been attracting the scene's attention since 2008.Their elegant production, which incorporates a variety of musical styles including disco, house, dance, rock, and punk, and their brilliant and bewitching live performances, give them a unique presence. On their new studio album "IN AMBER", their first album in five years, they have collaborated with ANOHNI for the first time since their debut album in 2008. ANOHNI co-produced one song on the album and also sings vocals on several songs. Andy says that ANOHNI gave him a lot of advice on how to sing, collaborate with Budgie (who worked with Susie & the Banshees and The Creatures), and arrange the songs for greater impact, and that he was able to "bring out the best in me. The first single from the album, "Grace," features vocals from Andy Butler and Icelandic singer Ely. It is a danceable pop number with a primitive beat, piano, and guitar. According to Andy, this album ventures into a realm of emotion that dance music has not really touched so far.Dance music focuses mainly on celebration, joy, desire, and heartbreak. But I don't think it's ever really focused on anger or existential contemplation... I felt like I was limited in expressing certain emotions. In a way, IN AMBER is an expression of something I didn't even know I had in me," he continued. As an artist whose work has been informed by personal experience, and who lives in a world of recent chaos, I couldn't in good conscience make something that was comfortable. I needed to express discomfort, I didn't need to make 90's techno, house, or weird 80's dance tracks." HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR's journey into destruction, anger, loss, redemption, and empowerment is a personal and universal journey into an emotional realm that the group has never ventured before. IN AMBER" may be a dance-pop album that represents the 2020s in a personal and universal way.

Tracklisting:

1.Grace
2.One
3.You’ve Won This War