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“ Hercules and Love Affair is the debut album by American house group Hercules and Love Affair. The album, which was released by DFA Records in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2008 and a day later in North America, was produced by Andy Butler and Tim Goldsworthy. The album was recorded at the Plantain Studios in Manhattan. Andrew Raposo (of fellow DFA band Automato) and Tyler Pope (of !!!) contributed bass to the album, while Antony Hegarty co-wrote and contributed vocals on some songs.

Reception
The album reached number thirty-one in the UK and the top twenty in Belgium and Norway.
The album received an almost exclusively positive response from the critical community. Fact Magazine called it "a unique, deeply satisfying and insanely catchy piece of work." Pitchfork Media's Philip Sherburne awarded the album 9.1/10, and described it as "Lush, melancholic, gregarious, generous, both precise and a little bit unhinged" before going on to proclaim "this is the most original American dance album in a long while.". Pitchfork's warm reception continued by placing "Blind" as the best song of 2008, and at #18 on Pitchfork's top 500 songs of the 2000s.; the album itself was placed [......] ”

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