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GoldLyrics.com - Hercules and Love Affair
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $13.99
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Manufacturer: Mute U.S.
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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: 2008-06-24
Studio: Mute U.S.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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".
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Really?
Comment: I must be immune to the alien mind rays that this, ahem, "music" emits that makes people think it's good. I only listened to the samples -- I can't imagine the pain that listening to the whole album would cause. I like disco (some of it) and I like alternative (lots of it). There were parts of this that sounded a little like Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music if they sucked. I think that kid from American Idol (Willim Hung?) must have lowered the musical expectations of the country enough that people who "sing" this badly are now able to get recording contracts. I'm just glad I had the latest Kaiser Chiefs at the ready on my iPod to wash this sonic sewage from my ears.
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Summary: GQ'S 2008 Best Dance Record of the Year!! Not.
Comment: Everything sucks on this album. Who told Antony that he can sing? Andrew is not too far behind. The Girl, I can tolerate a bit. Ok Disco part. The worst. I would rather go back and listen to Donna Summer, Giorgio Morodor, Cerrone. This is piece of s**t. Sorry to be this honest. Otherwise I am very tolerable on have diverse music taste. Even my $200K stereo system could not make it sound better!
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Summary: An excellent effort
Comment: 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.
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Summary: I finally found them!
Comment: 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!
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Summary: The Formula is a Total Fiasco
Comment: 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
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