Andy Butler has returned to the dance floor with a project that feels less like both a comeback and a ritual. “Someone Else Is Calling” is the ignition point for a new body of work stitched together with Icelandic vocalist Elín Ey and Paranoid London’s Quinn Whalley. Acid lines coil beneath soaring vocals, techno grit meets house emotion, and the result is a sound that feels tactile, shadowy, and alive. This is Hercules & Love Affair.
The video, directed by and co‑starring Tatsumi Milori, turns Mexico City into a living canvas. Shot across canals, streets, and intimate rooms, it moves like a collage of queer joy and resilience with friends rehearsing, laughing, dancing, and carrying each other through the city’s pulse. Spliced home footage textures break the polish, giving the film the intimacy of memory, as if you’re watching fragments of a chosen family archive.
“Someone Else Is Calling” carries a restless, cyclical energy; hypnotic, restless, and heavy with repetition that feels like both a mantra and a trap. It’s the sound of being stuck in a cycle of calls, excuses, and disappointments, where the beat keeps pushing forward, but the words drag you back into the same ache. There’s a tension between movement and stagnation as the track makes you want to dance, but it also makes you feel the claustrophobia of heartbreak that won’t resolve. It’s communal in its catharsis, like a ritual on the dance floor, yet deeply solitary in its emotional weight. The vibe is simultaneously shadowy, ecstatic, and human.
“Someone Else Is Calling” is the lead single from Butler’s forthcoming EP that carries the same name, a project shaped in part through his recent collaboration with Quinn Whalley, whose instinct for tension, build, and acid-driven movement leaves its imprint throughout the release. The arrival of the full EP aligns with Hercules & Love Affair’s return to the stage after seven years, a revival of the project’s signature blend of queer energy, emotional intensity, and club euphoria. “Someone Else Is Calling” becomes an invitation, a reminder that the dance floor still holds space for resilience and release.
