Hercules & Love Affair
DFA introduces Andrew Butler, a compelling new voice in American dance music. His debut album is a self-contained, self-assured set that runs vintage styles through a restless compositional imagination to create something joyfully, startlingly unique. Guest include Antony Hegarty, who provides vocals on multiple tracks, and !!!'s Tyler Pope.
Hercules And Love Affair, a disco act featuring the quivering voice of art-rock star Antony, hearkens back to a mode of disco in which quivering vocals by someone as weird or weirder than Antony would hardly count as novel. The model is the kind of lithe, rapturous disco spun by epochal DJ Larry Levan at the…
Few treat disco as a living and breathing art form, as opposed to something in need of a revival and the uniqueness-eliminating reverence that often goes with it, like Hercules & Love Affair.
And with a name like Hercules & Love Affair, it was never going to be anything other than high-concept.
<p>Four New York oddballs point to disco's past and future in one deft package, writes Paul Flynn</p>
This is not the dance music of the future. It’s the artfully resuscitated, painstakingly stitched-together, spangled-and-sparkling dance music of the past.
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