Hercules & Love Affair is a dance music project created by Andrew Butler in 2004. Consisting of a rotating cast of performers and musicians, the band work within the genres of house music, disco, techno and nu-disco.

Andrew Butler, began DJ'ing at a leather bar as a teen in his native Denver, Colorado. After a move to New York, he became further immersed in club culture as a party promoter and began to make his own music. Butler’s first single, 2007’s “Classique”/“Roar” – a co-production with Tim Goldsworthy – featured vocals from close associate Kim Ann Foxman and friend ANOHNI, bearing his deep affinity for electro-disco and early Chicago house. “Blind,” an early-2008 follow-up, preceded a self-titled full-length released that March. His group’s second album, the relatively low-key Blue Songs, was issued on Moshi Moshi in early 2011. After taking Blue Songs on tour, Butler decamped to Vienna and found himself an analog studio to put down ideas for his third album. Opting this time for a dirtier sound – by mixing elements of rough house and techno – Butler joined forces with Haze Factory and Blue Songs' collaborator Mark Pistel to complement the raw direction that he had decided to take. The Feast of the Broken Heart, featuring lead vocal turns from the likes of John Grant, Krystle Warren, and Rouge Mary, was released in May 2014. Featuring collaborations with Sharon Van Etten, the Horrors' Faris Badwan, and Icelandic vocalist Sísý Ey, the woozy, nu-disco sounding fourth album, Omnion, appeared in mid-2017.

• Andy Kellman via Apple Music