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How Hercules & Love Affair’s Andy Butler Embraced the Darkness on ‘In Amber’
Click here to read the full article. The list of reasons why Andy Butler decided to revamp his sound is seemingly endless.
Speaking to Billboard via Zoom from his new home of Ghent, Belgium, the frontman for beloved dance project Hercules & Love Affair acknowledges that In Amber (out now via BMG), Hercules’s first proper album since 2017’s Omnion, sounds much different — gone are the lush, hyper-ecstatic soundscapes of unrestrained joy that course through early songs like “Blind” and “Raise Me Up,” now replaced with moody, ambient production and stark lyrics depicting a darker, more complicated worldview.
“Having put out a lot of music...