Tenor-Vossa After the relatively recent reissues of Glass Bead Game and Between Happiness And Heartache, the time has finally come for new material from Breathless. Their gaps between album make the Blue Nile look prolific, but seriously each outing is worth the wait. Having prepared songs for this release, not only did they have to cope with lockdown delays but close to the time of recording, drummer Tristram […]
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Tenor-Vossa I suppose it is fair to say that what set Breathless apart from their contemporaries was the extraordinary voice of Dominic Appleton; it somehow managed to encapsulate a desolate longing, but never really strayed into melancholy. It was a voice that understood loneliness and did its best to rise above it. Having said that, the band managed to surround that voice with some of the most widespread […]
Named after Jean-Luc Godard‘s classic of French new wave cinema, Breathless re-release their 1991 album Between Happiness And Heartache via Tenor Vossa on 16 July 2021 as a deluxe thirtieth anniversary edition on what they describe as “heartache pink” vinyl. The double a-side single of “Over And Over” and “Everything I See” comes out on 25 June, and the latter is a bonus track only available on the […]
Tenor-Vossa (CD) / 1972 (vinyl) Given the deluxe gatefold treatment, Breathless’s 1986 debut LP The Glass Bead Game is being plucked out of relative obscurity to shine once again.