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Between Happiness And Heartache

Breathless

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Release Date:  16 July 2021

Label:  Tenor Vossa

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5020389000472

Genres:  Rock  Alternative  

Release Date:  29 July 2022

Label:  Tenor Vossa

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5020389100103

Genres:  Rock  Alternative  

  • Description

    30th anniversary deluxe edition on Heartache Pink vinyl, in luxurious gatefold sleeve, plus inner bag with with previously unavailable portraits of the band by Kevin Westenberg. Includes download with bonus track, Everything I See. "Without exaggeration Dominic Appleton is by far, my favourite living male vocalist. He has such a beautiful, sad voice and comes up with melodies that do the same." Ivo Watts-Russell. Between Happiness And Heartache comes galloping in, its desolate twang filling the gloaming desert sky. The familiar wall of echoed sound, now augmented by duelling retro guitars wafting melodiously between Joy Division and Duane Eddy on the cactus scented breeze. Linked inextricably to 4AD after singer Dominic Appleton's Voice Of An Angel bejewelled This Mortal Coil's albums, Breathless' shimmering layers of Space Rock Melancholia owe as much to their love of Pink Floyd, Can, Eno, Joy Division and 60's Folk as to their love of the Cocteau Twins. Includes Breathless' cover of The Only Ones song Flowers Die, mixed by Only Ones' guitarist John Perry and also featuring him on rhythm guitar. Between Happiness and Heartache was released in 1991 to rave reviews: 'For believers in the beauty of loneliness everywhere' Q 'Possessing choruses that aren't just sweeping but do the polishing and washing up as well... They were ethereal before ethereal had been invented' NME. 'Exquisite melancholic indie pop' The Guardian. 'Gems of pop melancholia' The Times

    Description

    Breathless' 1991 album available again on CD. Reissue with extra tracks. BREATHLESS' music fits into a lush vein of haunting, epic music, shimmering with misty, semi-whispered vocals merging with hypnotic ethereal, reverb-drenched, cavernous arrangements - fragile melancholic melodies of 'skewed floaty gorgeousness'. This reissue of Between Happiness And Heartache' with bonus tracks and a new sleeve. Includes the new addition of a rare DVD version of 'Over And Over' and the track 'Everything I See' previously only available on the 'Don't Just Disappear' EP. Recorded by Drostan Madden (Cocteau Twins), on its original release the LP was described by NME as "possessing choruses that aren't just sweeping but do the polishing and washing up as well", "a must for buffs of pre-Pixies 4AD" (Select), and "for believers in the beauty of loneliness" (4**** Q).