Hercules & Love Affair's Andy Butler Goes Solo on You Can Shine EP

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Hercules & Love Affair maestro Andy Butler has announced his first solo EP, You Can Shine. He will release the two-track offering ("You Can Shine" and "Personality Track") on February 23 on vinyl, March 16 on Beatport, and March 30 on iTunes and other digital stores via his own label, mr.intl. Listen to the title track above. Richard Kennedy provides the vocals.

In a press release, Butler said:

Whilst Hercules has a collaborative, collective approach, "Shine" goes for a more direct approach, a stomping, uplifting club 12" but it's me so it will still have something of Hercules about it. I wanted to tap into the gospel tradition, for there to be a testifying quality to the record. Richard and I talk in the lyrics about putting ego aside and allowing people around you to shine. You shine when you acknowledge other people's shine, even, if you will, the creator's shine. I hope we've created something new. House is often soulful but you very rarely hear a big gospel-inflected voice paired with booming, doomy techno.

Hercules and Love Affair's last album was last year's The Feast of the Broken Heart.

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