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THE VEILS Bodega, Thursday July 25 & Friday July 26 The Veils first played Wellington in early 2007 it was a wide-eyed and yearning sound and approach – Finn Andrews was like Rufus Wainwright dressed up as Michael Stipe. As a frontman, as a musician, it seems that Andrews has aimed for Springsteen but settled for Bono.
TIME STAYS, WE GO The Veils (Universal) Kiwi-raised indie oddball Finn Andrews returned to the LA studio that gave birth to The Veils’ 2006 hit album Nux Vomica for the band’s fourth full-lengther and the result is wonderfully weird. Make no mistake, there’s very litte mainstream top-10 hit material here but Andrews’ unstoppable song-writing (he claims to write every day and had to pare back hundreds of tracks to find these 10) allows for him to hit the off-beat from a number of different directions – mariachi horns, heavy reverbed guitars, 17th century English poets and a fairytale song about birds all feature.
The Veils new album, Time Stays We Go, released on their own label Pitch Beast Records today, has shot straight to No 5 in the New Zealand iTunes album charts.
Widow Shah Jan sits in an icy room with mud walls in a snowfield on the edge of Kabul. She wipes her tears with the edge of her grimy sweater as she recalls the day in August 1999 when the Taliban set fire to her home in the vineyards of the Shomali Plain and kidnapped her best friend, Nafiza