Surely it can ...

... Not hurt if you have a little explores related to the new board of Hercules & Love Affair with slogans like Queer Pop, gender, Vogueing or Sylvester James - is unable to everything but in a truly exhaustive and sound connection bring, one leaves it better the feature and is limited to the more obvious, the music.

Two years ago, the New York Dance Project has it you know, managed to, all those who preferred the latter in the choice between a plate of Antony & The Johnsons and a decent tinnitus so far, this Antony Hegarty with such magnificent songs like "blind" and "Raise Me Up "to show a bekömmlicheren page. His voice, along with the sweaty mix of Deep House, Italo Disco and schmissigem radio at that time was undoubtedly the benchmark for anyone who wanted abhaben a piece of the cake Club.

The staff was completely replaced for "Blue Songs" until founding father Andrew Butler and Kim Ann Foxman, the sound nothing much has changed compared to the debut, however. Starting with the velvety "Painted Eyes" succeeds terrific and the parallels to said Crowdpleaser "blind" are particularly striking - the mellifluous strings and mild beats would have a Jimmy Somerville good standing to face. "My House" then takes over the counterpoint, Shaun Wright guest appearance here on dry dust House including syncopated Sythieloops and funny scat. The subsequent "Answers Come In Dreams" again reminds the almost masculine voice Aerea Negrot to the exploits of the 80-icon Grace Jones.

Find similar to its predecessor Hercules & Love Affair always a new twist, vary the style and pace and keep the tension so over the entire distance - a delicate and completely decelerated "Boy Blue", the theme song pluckert almost outrageously relaxed as meaning " Falling "and" I Can not Wait "let the glitter ball strongly again rotate and Frankie Knuckles rubs his hands already. That Kele Okereke has to feel comfortable with this band, you do not just since he said with his solo "The Boxer" the classic indie rock farewell - "Step Up" would also fit well as readily.

And because hardly anyone in succession may twice encounter for the first time, this album is perhaps not as surprising as the debut, but still damn good stuff - finally bring's the five simple even to the point: "And it's gonna be alright, Cause the music plays on and on and on ... "