Between Happiness And Heartache

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30th anniversary deluxe edition on Heartache Pink vinyl, in luxurious gatefold sleeve, plus inner bag with previously unavailable portraits of the band by Kevin Westenberg. Includes download with bonus track, Everything I See. Mojo Aug 2021 4**** review gorgeous melodies

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 Appletons Voice Of An Angel bejewelled This Mortal Coils albums, Breathless shimmering layers of Space Rock Melancholia owe as much to their love of Pink Floyd, Can, Eno, Joy Division and 60s 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 arent 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