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Blue Songs
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: The second album for the New York-based musical group was produced with Patrick Pulsinger.
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Painted Eyes
Elegant, you were born at night Sewn by soft hands Oh the softest hands Born in solitude Born of painted eyes Painted Eyes That always looked to the... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. AllMusic
    Aug 19, 2011
    80
    It's filled with memorable, exceptionally played and produced electronic pop songs that are off-center yet targeted squarely at the heart.
  2. BBC Music
    Feb 14, 2011
    80
    Hercules and Love Affair have vaulted over any second album worries with a jubilant and celebratory collection of large tunes.
  3. Boston Globe
    Aug 16, 2011
    70
    Hercules & Love Affair mostly skip the postmodern irony here, sounding sincerely dorky enough to have arrived straight from the disco era. That's both good and bad.
  4. Pitchfork
    Feb 14, 2011
    66
    So much of the album is straining to be more than just an homage to the club sounds of the late 80s that it ends up being a bit less.
  5. Paste Magazine
    Aug 17, 2011
    60
    A lot of the miffed disappointment could come from the fact that Butler pulled the rug out from under his solidified, circa-2008 sound, but if nothing else the new incarnation is a lot harder to fall in love wit
  6. Mojo
    Apr 4, 2011
    60
    While there's an invigorating charm to Blue Songs, you're left concluding that it lacks its predecessor's USP. [Feb 2011, p.108]
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  7. The Guardian
    Feb 14, 2011
    40
    Its successor, Blue Songs, is also composed of immaculately produced house and disco, but the two most charismatic vocalists from the last go-round, Antony Hegarty and Nomi Ruiz, are absent – as, for the most part, are the songs.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. musicmaster2273
    Aug 17, 2011
    7
    This album is definitely an album that fits well outside of the club. Andy Butler has a great musical mind that goes beyond one type of music.This album is definitely an album that fits well outside of the club. Andy Butler has a great musical mind that goes beyond one type of music. The Most interesting song from this album has probably got to be the song "step up" but the different vocalists all sound great as well. It gets a 7/10 from me because even though it was decent, it didn't push any musical boundaries or show us anything totally new or different.… Expand
  2. hydrawithears
    Oct 23, 2011
    4
    Hercules and Love Affair are the people responsible for one of the greatest albums of 2008 and the best debut of that year. Itâ

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