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DANTE FOX – Breathless (2025 reissue +1 bonus), MP3+FLAC

As the original record label (AOR Heaven) which released their album ‘Breathless’ ceased operations and the CD is out of print, DANTE FOX are reissuing themselves the record 2025, including the intro originally rejected by AOR Heaven.
One thing that has always earned our love to Dante Fox from the moment we heard them for the first time almost three decades ago, is the voice of Sue Willetts. Whoever is in the band, as long as her voice is there, it will always be Dante Fox.
Willetts, having been selected in the Top 20 in Classic Rock magazine among the 50 Best Female Rock Vocalists Of All Time, should explain all you really need to know. Although you really need to listen to those velvet tones to get the full Fox!
”Breathless (2025 reissue +1)” then is up there with the best in the Melodic Rock world. With albums as great as this, the band should be headlining arenas across the globe. Although we are more than happy to have Dante Fox as one of Rock’s best kept secrets.

Another ace in Dante Fox’s hand is the guitar playing of Tim Manford, which when given a faultless production from Mark Stuart / Sheena Sheer, sounds like something out of the world. The rest of the band at the time (2016) consisted of Andy Perfect on drums and Alan Mills on bass.
The songs have a rich, polished sound – not too clinical mind – and having ‘keyboard player to the stars’ Eric Ragno and Lee Small (Shy / Phenomena) on harmony vocals adds to the magical mix.

‘Young Hearts’ is the kind of rock song that many bands starting out now would sell their souls for. Couple that with ‘All Eyes On You’ and the title track, and you get an opening trio of songs that will not only leave you breathless, but gasping for more. At this point ‘Break These Chains’ provides a welcome breather, but it’s still as powerful, if not more so, due to its subtleties.

This leads to the album’s calling card in the form of ‘Broken Hearted Man’ which is a song that Ann Wilson / Heart would no doubt have scored a worldwide hit back in their big hair heyday. The band no doubt believe this to be true too as there are two versions included here, the fully electric, and an acoustic / string arrangement at the end of the album. Both are fantastic.
There’s also a stand out tune in ‘Love Affair’, but then again how can you pick your favorites when they are all so ruddy marvelous?

Dante Fox’s “Breathless” is, simply put, one the best ‘pure’ melodic rock albums appeared in recent years. There’s many bands (and good ones) out there trying to recapture the magical ’80s sounds but few succeed like Dante Fox.
At the moment there is basically no real competitor to Dante Fox in terms of female-fronted Melodic Rock. High Quality Melodic Rock we should say. Heck, all songs here could rival Heart / Ann Wilson best work in their ’80s prime.
“Breathless” is a mandatory record for all fans of the genre.

 

01 – Intro [previously unreleased]
02 – Young Hearts
03 – All Eyes on You
04 – Breathless
05 – Break These Chains
06 – Broken Hearted Man
07 – I Can’t Stop Tonight
08 – Dynamite (Your Love Is Like)
09 – A Love Affair
10 – How Will You Know (Where to Find Me)
11 – Creeps into My Mind
12 – Booken Hearted Man (Acoustic String Arrangement)

Sue Willetts (vocals)
Tim Manford (guitar)
Alan Mills (bass)
Andy Perfect (drums)
with:
Erik Ragno (keyboards)
Lee Small (harmony vocals)

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