Following a sell-out European tour, British/NZ indie darlings The Veils make their long-awaited return to Australia in support of their new double album … And Out of the Void Came Love.
NOVEMBER 28 | THE LANSDOWNE, SYDNEY
NOVEMBER 29 | NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB, MELBOURNE
NOVEMBER 30 | POWERHOUSE, BRISBANE
The band’s first Australian shows since 2009 are to contain an incendiary mix of songs from the new album plus cuts from their 20+ year career, from their lauded early Rough Trade albums Nux Vomica and Sun Gangs, through to 2016’s incomparable Total Depravity (produced by El-P of Run The Jewels).
It had been seven strange 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 this tumultuous period of injury, isolation, and new life…
Following the release of Total Depravity, Andrews released a solo album and began a worldwide tour. While on tour the lead singer broke his wrist while lashing out on the piano and Finn’s convalescence meant a lengthy hiatus from touring, so he did what he does best and stayed at home and wrote songs.
Just when his hand had healed sufficiently for him to play again, The Veils found themselves in need of a new record label, but Finn set about starting to make a new record regardless and enlisted producer Tom Healy (Julia Jacklin, Marlon Williams, Jen Cloher)
The result of all these years of questioning, confinement and precarious uncertainty is the magnificent new double album from The Veils … And Out Of The Void Came Love. It is an album intended to be listened to in two sittings with a short break in the middle, or as Andrews instructs: “Make a coffee or smoke a cigarette – but don’t mow the lawn or go to the movies or something, that takes too long.”
Since being signed to Rough Trade when lead singer Finn Andrews was 16 years old, The Veils have now released six studio albums: The Runaway Found (2004), Nux Vomica (2006), Sun Gangs (2009), Time Stays, We Go (2013), Total Depravity (2016), …And Out Of The Void Came Love (2023) 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.