4. Listen to In Amber

Hercules & Love Affair’s fifth set. Skint Records/BMG.

Hercules & Love Affair took off during the midaughts Day-Glo, dance-punk era thanks to the talents of DJ-singer-producer Andy Butler and his collabs with producer-singer ANOHNI. This new batch of abrasive post-punk and dance tunes, with vocals and production from ANOHNI, is their first reunion since Hercules’s 2008 selftitled set and includes drums from Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees). In Amber is equally unsettling and intoxicating.