Blog: The Village Voice: Sound of the City

The deep-seated bias against disco that many of us who were unlucky enough to have missed disco's heyday carry around is often difficult to overcome. But a new breed of NYC dance-music artists, ranging from Escort to Baby Oliver to DFA-label heavyweights like Shit Robot and Still Going, are toying with house and disco in ways tremendously palatable to those with little to no experience in either genre. The best of these retro-minded but forward-looking acts, though, is Hercules and Love Affair. Led by Brooklynite Andy Butler, the group's self-titled debut CD is a lithe, propulsive, catchy, deliciously slick dance-floor [...]