Length 57:02 Release date 28 January 2011 | Artist Hercules and Love Affair Label Moshi Moshi Records | |
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Released January 28, 2011 (2011-01-28) Recorded 2009–10; Feedback Studio (Vienna)
Lofish Studio, Midnight Sun (New York City)
Room 5 Recording (San Francisco)
E Studios (Berlin) Producer Andrew Butler
Mark Pistel
Patrick Pulsinger Blue Songs
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Blue Songs is the second studio album by American electronic music band Hercules and Love Affair, released on January 28, 2011 by Moshi Moshi Records. The album features guest appearances from Bloc Party's Kele Okereke on the song "Step Up," and also includes vocal contributions from Kim Ann Foxman, Aerea Negrot and Shaun Wright. The song "It's Alright" is a cover of the Pet Shop Boys' 1988 song of the same name, originally recorded and released by Sterling Void and Paris Brightledge in 1987.
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Critical reception
Blue Songs received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 28 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Barry Walters of Spin wrote that "Blue Songs' prevailing mood is deep indigo, not ultraviolet, yet that darkness heightens and complicates. By shunning regulation house fierceness, Butler and crew offer gentle nocturnal sacrament."
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Blue Songs.
Songs
1Painted Eyes6:02
2My House4:52
3Answers Come In Dreams5:23