Indie Folk Act The Veils Making Striking Return With New Single “Undertow”

It’s been seven years since The Veils released their last studio album, Total Depravity. Lead by Finn Andrews, the band dissolved following a cataphoric injury to Andrews’ wrist during a tour promoting his 2019 solo album One Piece At A Time.

One night, while lashing out at a particularly intense moment on piano, he broke his wrist on stage. “It sounds wild and Jerry Lee Lewis-esque, but it was an absolute fucking nightmare,” Andrews says. He managed to finish the tour, but at a high cost. “The scaphoid bone in my wrist had died, which I didn’t know was possible. My sister said that at least it was a really ‘on brand’ injury for me.”

Nevertheless, Andrews recovered, and found the desire to write more music, which has lead to the upcoming double-album, …And Out of the Void Came Love, due out in 2023.

Leading the way is the slow-burning new single “Undertow” – a song about a song.

Finn Andrews describes explains, “In the year before I started writing this album, I really didn’t think I’d ever write another album again. I was done. I’d irreparably broken my wrist on stage. Then this song came shimmying down the drainpipe, and it really seemed to be encouraging me to carry on. It is, embarrassingly enough, a song about writing songs, written at what I admit was a pretty low ebb for me emotionally. Both my parents are writers, and though I am grateful to it for the life it continues to afford me, it is a complex genetic inheritance.”

Built on a foundation of minimalistic Americana, Andrews’ voice crawls forward, reciting “it’s in my blood” with each chorus.

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