Hercules & Love Affair – Someone Else Is Calling (Ep)

Hercules & Love Affair’s music has always been about folding past, present and future together – and never more so than in the latest phase, encapsulated by the track that launches things, ‘Someone Else is Calling.’If the song-first, ultra-gothic mind-movie of the last H&LA album ‘In Amber’ was partly motivated by Andy Butler falling out of love with dance culture, this new body of work – an EP titled ‘Someone Else Is Calling’ – is an unabashed resurgence of the love affair. A co-production with London underground veteran and inspiration to Butler, Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London and Decius, the lead single is a surging, tactile acid track woven around the vocal of Icelandic icon Hips & Lips (aka Elin Ey) – who hits that new wave disco sweet spot between Grace Jones and Yazoo-era Alison Moyet.Elin’s lyrics work perfectly with the bodily momentum of the sounds, circling around themes of self-possession and the urge to move on to the next experience, t