Last month Hercules & Love Affair announced their return with their upcoming fifth album, In Amber, and its first single, ‘Grace.’ A slow-build of a song, it was not perhaps what we expected from a Hercules & Love Affair release but the meditative vibe was both welcome and necessary.

Today Andy releases the album’s next single, ‘Poisonous Storytelling’, a track full of energy, emotion and urgency. A collaboration with ANOHNI – fifteen years after their hedonistic disco anthem, ‘Bind.’ ‘Poisonous Storytelling’ is a totally different kettle of fish however as it comments on the insidious misinformation that’s now caught the world in its vice-like grip, and does its very best to divide rather than unite.

Andy says, ‘Poisonous Storytelling started as a song called “Sacral” – The music evoked sacred rites, but the word “Sacral” also speaks to one of the sources of our rootedness and stability. ANOHNI’s lyrics outline a constellation of systemic brokenness within global society.  Addressing cultural narrators, newscasters, film makers and prophets, ANOHNI states, “We must be careful with new narratives, because everyone is rotted out from poisonous storytelling”.

‘Poisonous Storytelling‘ is out now.