Breathless

BREATHLESS

We're excited to announce that BREATHLESS will be releasing their new album
SEE THOSE COLOURS FLY mixed by KRAMER this summer.
Preceded by Digital Single from the album WE SHOULD GO DRIVING

15th July WE SHOULD GO DRIVING Digital Single
29th July SEE THOSE COLOURS FLY Deluxe CD & Digital Release
5th August SEE THOSE COLOURS FLY Deluxe Coloured and Black Vinyl release

“I’m intoxicated by this excruciatingly beautiful music. It massages my soul.”
KRAMER

“What a gorgeous thing."
IVO WATTS-RUSSELL

Dreamlike and Hallucinogenic, A hazy luminosity billows from every pore of Breathless'
forthcoming album See Those Colours Fly. Echoed by the album’s disarmingly beautiful
sleeve image, by Artist Jay Cloth.

The music of Dream-Pop Melancholics, Breathless has never been the sort to be hurried
– after all, See Those Colours Fly, mixed by Kramer, is only their third new release
this century. But while progress on the group’s eighth album was unavoidably delayed
by a stroke of cruel misfortune – not to mention the realities of the global pandemic
– the finished work is one of their finest, brimming with melody, transfigured by its long
period of gestation and the changes fate imposed on their creative process.

“Three days before we were due to go into the studio and record the first track ‘We Should
Go Driving’,our drummer, Tristram, was involved in a serious car accident,” says bassist
Ari Neufeld. “He was in a coma, and we didn’t know if he was going to live or die.
We were all really shaken by the experience but decided to carry on writing and rehearsing
the other songs for the album, as we had no idea what the outcome would be"

A founder member, one of only two drummers to play with the group since they formed.
Tristram Latimer Sayer’s absence from See Those Colours Fly marks a profound break
in tradition for Breathless.But the path they were compelled to take, helped shape
their new album’s bold sound, with its floating layers and ghostly drones, like
fragments of half remembered dreams, all adding to its huge sense of space.
Rhythms on the album take the form of drum parts programmed by Ari who jokes that
she was“forced” into the role. “Luckily, I like simple, ‘Moe Tucker’ drums,”
she adds. “I wasn’t trying to do anything complicated.”

One of the most potent elements of the album comes from outside of the core trio.
Breathless first collaborated with Kramer – the New York polymath behind such
legendary underground groups as Bongwater, B.A.L.L., Shockabilly and Dogwater, and
whose production work has proved an essential component within works by artists
like Galaxie 500, Low and Royal Trux – a decade ago, when he mixed three tracks
from Green To Blue.“It turned out brilliantly,” says Ari, “so we decided to take a
leap of faith and trust him to mix the whole album.” Ari says. “It was like he
could see inside my head, and he could hear how, if I had the technical ability,
I would make the album sound. It’s like he has super-powers! He has this very
specific reverb sound that makes things sound like they’re swimming, makes them
sound so much bigger, and affects the space in which they’re floating. He opens
everything out and makes it sound very three dimensional.”

The album is, Ari says,
“so large-sounding, it’s astonishing to me.” But See Those Colours Fly is also an
album of contrasts, an album of perfect tiny details stitched to create the bigger
picture, its resounding, melancholic tapestry anchored by expert songcraft.
It is, as Kramer says, excruciatingly beautiful. Let it massage your soul.

PRESS: ken@hermana.co.uk
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