Original Article on Pitchfork Media

The next Hercules and Love Affair album is called Blue Songs and is due out in January, according to an interview with band mastermind Andy Butler on omg blog. As previously reported, the record features vocals from Kele from Bloc Party, Venezuelan singer Aerea Negrot, fan-turned-collaborator Shaun Wright, and Hercules vet Kim Ann Foxman. (No Antony this time.) Electro-industrial O.G. Mark Pistel (Meat Beat Manifesto, Consolidated) helped produce and record the new album, according to the new interview. Butler also recorded a cover of the xx's "Shelter" with Foxman that's due out in November. Check out a clip of Hercules performing the new song "Step Up" with Kele below, via omg blog. Hercules and Love Affair are on tour now, dates below:...(read more)