The Veils

The Veils return with their highly anticipated 4th album Time Stays, We Go - released on their own Pitch Beast Records imprint. Recorded at Seedy Underbelly Studios in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles and produced by lead singer/songwriter Finn Andrews and Adam Greenspan, Time Stays, We Go marks the beginning of a captivating new era for a band already hailed as “The best and most unsettling thing I’ve seen in music this year” by The LA Times and “Quite possibly the most underrated band on the planet” by NME.

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On Time Stays, We Go, Andrews’ voice sometimes echoes the low baritone of Lee Hazelwood or Leonard Cohen, such as on the ornithological Grimm Tale ‘Birds’. But this voice becomes twisted and possessed during ‘Dancing With The Tornado’, screeching and hollering through its narrative of a girl with “Tombstone teeth and hair pulled back tight like a violin bow.” Much like Andrews’ heroine in that song, The Veils like to dance with the larger things. Subjects like love, death and time have always provided the backbone of Andrews’ song writing and it is a pleasure to listen to a band having such fun with the material. Long time collaborators Sophia Burn (bass), Raife Burchell (drums), Daniel Raishbrook (guitar) and new member Uberto Rapisardi (hammond organ) help create a rich musical backdrop for Andrews’ songs, audibly relishing the opportunity to take the listener from frenzied album opener ‘Through The Deep, Dark Wood’ to the glistening, reverb-soaked ode to lost youth ‘Candy Apple Red’ - all within the album’s first 10 minutes. 

Time Stays, We Go shows The Veils at the very height of their creative powers so far, deftly combining two distinct sides of their personality, or as Andrews calls it, “The Pop & The Snarl”: “I never set out to be in a successful band, I just really hoped that someday I might get to be in a great one. Ultimately I’ve just always wanted to tell little stories in my songs, but then there’s a very improvised and cathartic aspect to what we do as well and I really wanted this record to put both of these sides across. I like the idea of Roy Orbison having a weird day out in the desert with The Stooges.” As for the future of The Veils, Finn has only one thing on his mind: “I just want to make another record, then another, then another - on and on until I have to hang up my hat. I really do hope I get to do that...”