Hercule’s & the Love Affair - Hercule’s Theme
I first featured the song ‘Time Will’ by Hercules & the Love Affair a while back. Typically I don’t like to post a song by the same group, but when I ran into this video on the Pitchfork website I said screw my policy. ‘Hercule’s Theme’ has a completely different feel then ‘Time Will,’ in that it is more attuned to the disco genre. This was the first song that I heard by the group on Gilles Peterson’s “All Winners” radio show that featured his top albums and songs for 2008. Overall 2008, did not seem as stellar of a year for music to me then 2007, but this song and album hit me hard.
The video from Pitchfork’s ‘Don’t Look Down’ series is beautifully shot. The series is simple putting an artist on a rooftop, I guess similar to the Beatles final rooftop show, and letting them perform. Hercule’s Theme is the last song that they play on the show as the sun sets. The group really just gets down on the song, every band member does a stellar job in creating this funky disco groove. Enjoy.
