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Aug 19, 2011It's filled with memorable, exceptionally played and produced electronic pop songs that are off-center yet targeted squarely at the heart.
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The WireApr 28, 2011Blue Songs nevertheless presents a level of poetic inventiveness that isn't easy to trace in the dance pantheon.
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UncutFeb 23, 2011Blue Songs journeys as great LPS should do. [Feb 2011, p.89]
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Feb 14, 2011Hercules and Love Affair have vaulted over any second album worries with a jubilant and celebratory collection of large tunes.
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Feb 23, 2011On Blue Songs, Hegarty is gone and Butler, following in the grand tradition of dance music about dance music's power to liberate, fixates on defeating the tyranny of neurosis.
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Oct 24, 2011Blue Songs has impressive diversity and variety.
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Aug 16, 2011Hercules & 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.
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Aug 16, 2011Blue Songs may not have an incredible single, but it does give you a collection of 11 solid songs.
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Aug 3, 2011Blue Songs' prevailing mood is deep indigo, not ultraviolet, yet that darkness heightens and complicates.
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Feb 23, 2011Blue Songs finds Butler and his crew of collaborators laying back to a place where the dance floor can be as much a place for ethereal contemplation as it is for unrepentant debauchery.
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Feb 15, 2011If H&LA's 2008 debut was an ideal accompaniment to the clubland chaos, then Blue Songs is the gentlest of comedowns.
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Feb 14, 2011Ultimately, it's an enjoyable record, but one that's more likely to point you in the direction of their original influences than achieve notability in its own right.
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Feb 14, 2011Hercules have furthered their ambitions on Blue Songs, drawing more of the late-great disco scene into a modern vehicle. Yet it's an album that does many things well but nothing to perfection.
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Feb 14, 2011it is pretty much the same thing we all loved from Hercules and Love Affair. Does that mean this album is bad? No, it's fabulous. There was just no risk, no movement.
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Feb 14, 2011So 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.
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Feb 14, 2011The album stutters heavily in the middle. Hercules are a 12-inch outfit, and "Boy Blue" and "Blue Song" are failed attempts at varying the mood with some despondency. As if they wanted to make Blue Songs more than a collection of singles, which it isn't.
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Oct 23, 2011Hercules 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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Aug 17, 2011