One of the album’s best tracks, “Blind,” is a clear example of this woeful approach. The brew of horns, strings, house beats, and jangling electronics makes it a prototypical musical homage to the nature of disco music. Yet the lyrics and undercurrents of the track propose something more: “Now that I'm older the stars should lie upon my face/And when I find myself alone/I feel like I am blind.”
The brilliant “Hercules Theme” is a superior tune that brims with the lilt of horns and backing vocals (“Yeah, yeah, yeah”) and “Athene” is a beat-happy track ready for dance floors across the world. “This is My Love” is a jazzy beauty and “Raise Me Up” is a club-thumper ready for prime time.
Hercules and Love Affair combines house, disco, and eulogy for the latter so well that it often feels like the New York quartet has invented something new. The heart, soul, and meaning of the disco era seems to have found fresh earth with this album, capturing the dying days of an era with all the melancholy, splendour, allure, and gregariousness required to mine those days of excess.
Article comments
1 - Connie Phillips
Congrats! This article has been forwarded to the Advance.net websites and Boston.com.
2 - karla spice
I totally agreed with you. They need to create more ariginal sound, disco will always there, some bands actually tried hard to revive it. Leaving in NY city I have access to all.