Music Hercules and Love Affair (album)

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most reviewers comment on album s musical style homage or re-imagining of disco , classic house music. fact magazine dubbed album s style pulsating, glamorous, elegiac mix of classic disco influences, live instrumentation , modernist, mind-spangling electronic production. similarly, daily telegraph critic bernadette mcnulty dubs music d-i-s-c-o in seventies glory butler weaves [...] fractured chicago house beats , pulsing synths, going on refer overall style of album tableau of beautiful, dysphoric disco visions. guardian describes music in same terms, commenting sounds proper late-70s disco. not camp glitterball retro electro-pop of kylie circa spinning round , actual underground disco, long-lost vaults of loft or paradise garage, real 1977–78 vintage stuff. however, while focus on obvious musical debt disco, critics highlight album s eclectic range of styles, such eddy lawrence, whom album has dark, psychedelic moments, such downbeat, mildly menacing, congotronic easy alongside outright funky party stuff belong . butler himself describes album s musical approach thus:



i s rhythmic, artsy kind of pop music made classic dance , electronic music in mind. has lot of vocals , rooted in childhood.



the album s first single blind , co-written , featuring vocals antony hegarty, released on march 3, 2008 , reached number forty on uk singles chart. nme called stone-cold classic , going on describe best kind of dance record: physical , emotional, euphorically happy , deeply, irredeemably sad. clips along weightlessly; disco bass, trumpets , rippling synthesiser, antony, voice tears rolling down cheeks of beautiful 40-year-old woman, muses intoxicatingly on lost innocence , ageing. however, magazine dismissed song belong old chicago house tune given digital spit n polish. music video blind directed london-based saam , features english actress jamie winstone walking through clouds of smoke. pitchfork described video bacchanalian orgy tak[ing] place around [winstone], hearkening pre-aids days of disco , places continental baths, larry levan djed , advertisers promoted recalling glory of ancient rome .








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