Since being signed to Rough Trade when lead singer Finn Andrews was 16 years old, The Veils have released studio albums: The Runaway Found (2004), Nux Vomica (2006), Sun Gangs (2009), Time Stays, We Go (2013), Total Depravity (2016), and two EP’s, The Troubles of the Brain (2011) and The Abbey Road EP (2013). Finn’s debut solo album One Piece At A Time was released in 2019.
The Veils have toured consistently throughout their twenty-year history and garnered a formidable reputation as one of the world’s greatest live bands. They have also been praised by film directors Paolo Sorrentino, Tim Burton, and David Lynch who have all used their music on their soundtracks. The band’s latest single, called “Time” was written during the first pandemic lockdown in New Zealand.
The lead singer/songwriter Finn Andrews confides, “…it felt as though we all simultaneously became aware of the presence and passing of time in a way we had possibly never experienced before. The words have a mantra-like quality which I think is the result of me walking back and forth in my flat and losing my mind a bit like that mad polar bear at the zoo”. The accompanying vintage video is of found footage taken on the main street in San Francisco only three days before the disastrous great earthquake in 1906.
It has been several years since The Veils’ last studio album Total Depravity, and Finn Andrews has a new double LP to show for it. ‘…And Out Of The Void Came Love ‘ is the result of a tumultuous period of injury, isolation, and new life.
By the time the songs were recorded, it made sense to arrange the album into two halves, but the meaning of the songs still eluded Andrews. Then his daughter was born, and suddenly the whole recording made sense, Finn shares. The music was telling a story, and somewhat strangely for The Veils, it seemed to have a happy ending. Composer Victoria Kelly’s string arrangements play an integral role in bringing the songs to life, and compliment musicians Cass Basil on bass, Dan Raishbrook (lap steel, guitar), Liam Gerrard (piano), Joseph McCallum (drums), the NZTrio, and special guests the Smoke Fairies on backing vocals.
For further information on the band, check the following social media link:
https://www.instagram.com/the_veils
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