Hercules and Love Affair: Affairs of the heart
By Ed Power
Friday December 11 2009
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One voice which will almost certainly be absent from the finished LP is that of Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, whose Honey Monster-goes-to-heaven falsetto was all over Hercules and Love Affairs first record -- and was the magic ingredient in the hit single Blind.
"He was very generous with his time," says Butler. "It was amazing working with him. He was on literally half of the album. And was totally unable to tour with us. And while the product we made was stunning, I thought it would be great to work with other people, people who could come on the road with us."