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.
Thank goodness that all that peculiarity is tied together by such a wonderful voice (although the album does hit a patch of whining through the middle) and superbly tight indie guitar production.
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