Hercules and Love Affair

Hercules and Love Affair is Andrew Butler with Nomi, Kim Ann, and Antony. 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 from there, including Nomi, Kim Ann and Antony and Hercules & Love Affair is the result.

This is a major step into a new area... a disco-influenced mix of glamour and melancholy, happiness and clubbing that has sprung out of the mutual worlds of Andrew and Antony, Kim Ann and Nomi. Antony lends his vocals to dancefloor staple and lead single, “Blind”, which will be released digitally on May 27th.

Nomi is a native New Yorker who met Andrew at one of Antony's performances years ago. She has performed with the likes of Debbie Harry and Cocorosie alongside longstanding recording collaborations with various NY DJs and hip-hop artists. Her autobiographical debut album ‘Lost In Lust’ has been compared to a cross between Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA on beats and Sade on vocals. Here Nomi lends her voice to the seductive ‘You Belong’.

Brooklyn-based Kim Ann Foxman's career as acid-house DJ, jewellery designer and singer has its roots in the legendary San Francisco club scene of the early/mid-nineties. Shortly after her move to NYC, she started throwing dance music/art parties and gave Andrew his first residency that lasted 3 years. He in turn provided her with her first pair of turntables, which led her to start DJ'ing. They have been regular collaborators ever since, engaging in art activities of all sorts and seeing her become part of NYC's nightlife glitterati with a distinct vocal style. Check out 'Athene' to hear her in full swing...

Hercules & Love Affair 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 and is already a critical and commercial smash in the UK where both the album and lead single “Blind” debuted in the top 40 and were also #1 album and track of the week respectively in the NME. Hercules and Love Affair have many champions ranging from clubs like Fabric to Pacha, artists like Hot Chip, New Young Pony Club, and Mylo who have been spinning the single and even the UK’s most influential radio stations and djs from XFM to Radio 1’s Pete Tong all playing “Blind”!