Hercules and Love Affair – Self Titled Review
Saying Hercules and Love Affair‘s debut album received good critical reviews might be one of the biggest understatements of the year. Hercules and Love Affair are labeled as disco and house.
I found these distinctions a bit off from my expectations because if you used disco and house I would expect music you can dance to, sometime along the lines of Daft Punk perhaps.
From my first impressions and listening to this music, this music is NOT danceable. Unless I wanted to dance as slow as a zombie or robot or I was under the influence of disco biscuits (maybe that’s why its called disco?).
Personally, I think this music has more an experimentation factor to it, almost like Panda Bear with a psychedelic factor to it. Otherwise, I can see people liking it and people equally hating it.
As dance music, I wouldn’t rate it anything high at all. I definitely would not be interested to them at all, if someone had introduced it to me. However, as original, creative music it does receive some high marks in my opinion. The critics just have made a standard that is far too high that you are bound to be disappointed.
Nothing great in my opinion, some interesting songs here and there. I generally like the slower songs that aren’t even considered dance songs at all. I really dislike tracks like “Blind” even with some enjoyable elements, it feels almost forced.
Some great vocals for dance music but for some reason it doesn’t feel like it mends as well as it could.
Rating: 3.25 out of 5
Creatively dense. Sometimes I hate it, sometimes I like it. 3.25 was the happy medium I came to. My favorite track is Iris.
Iris by Hercules and Love Affair
Raise Me Up by Hercules and Love Affair
Yeah, sometimes it’s bad and sometimes it’s weird.