The Feast Of The Broken Heart
Hercules and Love Affair's mission has remained consistent throughout: to breathe new life into the sounds and structures of early dance music, particularly the interplay between producer and vocalist that underpinned the genre’s formative years. The project's third album transcends mere homage not only through sonic innovations but by the quality of the emotional connection it makes with its audience.
The disco and funk sounds that were central to the self-titled 2008 debut from Hercules & Love Affair have all but disappeared from DJ Andrew Butler’s project. Over a handful of mixes and 2011’s sophomore effort Blue Songs, Butler has delved deeper into the sounds of early Chicago house and hard techno, a harsher but…
As classy a slice of high-grade dance as we've come to expect from Andy Butler and co.
The Feast of the Broken Heart and 2011's Blue Songs are more dissimilar than their titles indicate.
Hercules and Love Affair's self-titled 2008 debut was exciting, in large part, because of the way it exemplified, not to mention totally refreshed, modern disco-house music.
Album review + interview: Hercules & Love Affair - The Feast Of The Broken Heart. "A fine set, waiting to control the summer…"
Grappling with that fraught history and how we move on is the explicit aim of Hercules and Love Affair’s third album.
Andy Butler and co return with a dancefloor-ready but subtle and varied set of songs that show a marked Chicago influence, writes <strong>Lanre Bakare</strong>