Hercules & Love Affair's Blue Songs is an impressive, eclectic take on a variety of dance floors. Andy Butler finds another angle via this remix of Chromeo's Solange Knowles-guesting "When The…   Read Story »

"Painted Eyes" opens Hercules & Love Affair's excellently lush, pleasingly eclectic/oddball sophomore album Blue Songs with a stringed pastoral flourish. (It's followed by "My House"'s Soul…   Read Story »

xx's spaciously hushed torch song "Shelter" is a distinctive handle for first-time listeners, the most balladic track on an album designed to soundtrack your night moves. It's the one where Jamie…   Read Story »

Until now our experience with Hercules & Love Affair's sophomore album stopped at the Soul Train-ready "My House." There are plenty of other styles and moods on Blue Songs, though, so diva…   Read Story »

This week we've got new videos from Destroyer, Discodeine (featuring Jarvis Cocker), Hercules & Love Affair, and Lupe Fiasco. We're still in a new video drought, post-Christmas and…   Read Story »

For the "My House" video, Hercules & Love Affair appropriately use the first single from their sophomore album Blue Songs to soundtrack an '80s-style dance party TV show. The wardrobe and set…   Read Story »

"My House" comes form Hercules And Love Affair's sophomore album Blue Songs. Newcomer Shaun Wright handles the diva roll, disco balls are spun. (Via NME) Blue Songs is out in the UK 1/31 via…   Read Story »

Still waiting for Andy Butler to wrap up and ship out the next Hercules & Love Affair record -- which would follow an eponymous masterstroke of a debut and feature a mostly new cast of…   Read Story »

We're live tweeting and shooting everything 'Roo at stereogum.com/bonnaroo. Here's the best of Friday...   Read Story »

Longtime DFA-affiliate Nomi Ruiz earned a profile boost with her work on Andy Butler's stellar Hercules & Love Affair LP, most memorably on the standout stomper "Hercules Theme." Since then the H&LA…   Read Story »