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- Summary: The first release in five years for the Andy Butler project Hercules And Love Affair features guest appearances from ANOHNI and Elin Ey.
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- Record Label: Skint Records
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Oct 10, 2022As bleak as In Amber can be, it's as thrilling to hear such unguarded yet exquisitely crafted confessions from Hercules & Love Affair as it was to have them transport listeners to dance floor nirvana.
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The WireJul 1, 2022It’s heavy but utterly lovely music, full of grave strings, piano stabs and deep synth reverberations. [Jul 2022, p.46]
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Aug 24, 2022It’s a moving and bracing exercise in creativity and is ultimately very rewarding – if not always easy – listening experience.
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Jun 16, 2022Ultimately In Amber demonstrates an unexpected mastery of dance floor inflected, gothic-folk tinged, post punk, driven by raw feeling and humanity. With topics as grave, the fact these songs only occasionally teeter on the hazardous borderline where meaning meets portentention is a mark of the sheer skill of those involved.
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Rolling StoneJul 7, 2022A bracing, at time beautiful, LP of dark art-pop abstraction. [Jul - Aug 2022, p.120]
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Jun 16, 2022On In Amber, Butler may have found a handful more peaks and his share of valleys, but few can emerge from the shadow of what came before.
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Jun 16, 2022If creating something uncomfortable was what Butler was hoping to achieve with In Amber, then it certainly succeeds in its mission. Unfortunately, though, it doesn’t achieve much else.
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