Hercules And Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
User Score
6.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 95 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 69 out of 95
  2. Negative: 20 out of 95

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  1. mrpoopy
    Oct 22, 2008
    9
    Just try to be still and listen to this. And lyrics? You can't rate this low just because you don't like the genre. Punk Disco Awesome.
  2. StevenH.
    Mar 24, 2008
    9
    This is a fantastic surprise and an early candidate for album of the year.
  3. MaryL.
    May 25, 2008
    9
    It´s an amazingly fun album to listen. Fun, deep at times, and well-done.
  4. JyotirmayaD.
    Jul 5, 2008
    9
    The fact that the tunes are worth listening to as well as dancing to make all the difference to me.. I used to hate house music or whatever they played at the disco's because they did nothing for my mind to make my body want to move. The songs which are co-produced with Antony of Antony and the Johnsons are my favorites.
  5. BobbyK.
    Apr 3, 2008
    9
    Spot on interpretation of dance music over the past 25 years, with a modern feel, and lots of genuine emotion. Sad irony is that Moby's new album made a similar attempt but is not nearly as slick.
  6. MartinA.
    Jul 23, 2008
    10
    The music isn't about the sexuality, so don't give it a lower rating because it was too "ghey". I think it's a gorgeous, organic album that the music industry needed. It was like a really classy Scissor Sisters album.
  7. AntonyP
    Jul 26, 2008
    9
    Not really following why the average user score for this is only a 6. Too many white guys who have still not got over the whole 'disco sucks' thing from 30 years ago?
  8. CH
    Feb 15, 2009
    10
    What a great album. I love the transition about half-way through from technical disco ("You Belong", "Time Will") to something that's hard to describe...a slow, electrosynth version ("Iris" and "Easy") The layers of Hegarty's voice is amazing in this, and Cruz stands up fairly strong as well when being juxtaposed with a voice as unique as Hegarty's. Butler deserves all the credit in the world with the production on this, especially in "You Belong" and "Easy", which are highlights imo. Great album. My only complaint is that it gets progressively weaker after "Easy" imo. Expand
  9. MaxM
    Jul 4, 2009
    9
    Aweshum. The people who rated this 3 or 4 because it sounded like disco, you people are crazy. It's not really disco, it's somewhere between that and the late 80s Talking Heads. Original and fresh from start to finish. Antony's voice is fantastic. The best track, of course, is "Blind" -- give it a listen! Best album of 2008.
  10. May 28, 2011
    9
    I dont understand the mixed user reviews here. There is more depth and creativity in this album than most chart artist struggle to put out in a whole career.
  11. MurphyN
    Jun 22, 2009
    10
    I am upset that people rated this album a 4 just because it sounds a little like disco. Voting this album low won't change the music! Hercules and Love Affair do something new with their tunes, and i think most will enjoy the fun times in this album!
  12. BibianeN.
    Mar 15, 2008
    10
    The most excting album since the beginning 2008! As someone said, this ain't a love affair, it's true love!
  13. DejanSt.
    Apr 8, 2008
    9
    Amazing neo disco! It will blow you away!
  14. FelipeP.
    Mar 17, 2008
    10
    Best Album of 2008! Fantastic!
  15. FabioM.
    Mar 21, 2008
    10
    Best album of the year, fantastic!
  16. MycroftW.
    Mar 25, 2008
    9
    One of the first must have records of 2008, very very hard to fault
  17. WesM.
    Jun 9, 2008
    10
    I have to disagree with the user who described Antony's voice as "...not going well with dance music." What better voice to put over new disco beats than a diverse, deep but androgynous one? He seems more at home here than with the Johnsons.
  18. agourne
    Jul 25, 2008
    9
    Dance revolting, enthousiastic, so 80s, 90s and yet so much fresh...music of today, the big surprise from US, sounds european project.
  19. RufusH.
    Mar 14, 2008
    10
    Wow! Great album!
  20. ArmenS.
    Mar 18, 2008
    10
    An amazing album from start to finish. Such talent!
  21. MarkJ.
    Mar 23, 2008
    10
    Flawless album
  22. SergeyA.
    May 24, 2008
    9
    I don't like disco before this disc.
Metascore

Universal acclaim - based on 31 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 31
  2. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. This record is as on disco and early house's dick as much as Britpop was on The Beatles' and The Kinks'.
  2. Hercules and Love Affair is a sincere and sumptuous stab at the mirrorball splendor of the 1970s.
  3. It's the big numbers, when Hegarty steps up to the microphone, that reveal Hercules And Love Affair as a project that captures not only the full range of moods on a night out on the tiles, but also the full range of human emotions from the start of a night to its end.