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From The Desk Of The Veils: Greta Alfero’s “In Ictu Ocoli”

VeilsLogoTime Stays, We Go (Pitch Beast)—the Veils‘ 10-track, fourth release—is both patiently restrained and wildly emotional. It’s full of lush brass and sing-along melodies, moments of surf-rock guitar and beachside ukulele, and essential personal queries within the struggles of the human endeavor. It’s a small dose of Pixies, and definitely reminiscent of Talking Heads, with a nod toward Jeff Buckley. In other words, Time Stays has a familiar quality despite its newness, and it’s instantly likeable, much like frontman Finn Andrews himself. Andrews and bassist Sophia Burn will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Veils feature.

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Soph: Making people watch stuff on the internet is always so stressful. You’re sitting there at your laptop, and they’re standing up, kind of half leaning over, maybe with a hand on the back of your chair, and a small voice inside you is saying, “What if they don’t like it … oh c’mon get to the good bit …. is this boring? Are they reconsidering our friendship?” And then around 3/4 of the way through, they’re like “hahha” or “hey, thanks man,” and they wander off and you feel like you wish you’d never made them watch it. Even if they did really like it and are now emailing it to their other friends, or calling their girlfriend in to watch as well, you sort of feel like they’re just doing it out of pity to make you feel better.

This video is exactly not like that. It’s like the heaven of things to make people watch, even though it’s quite slow burning and quite long. Showing this video to people makes me feel like a better person, and that’s even before I tell them to look up Greta Alfaro‘s other works; In Praise Of The Beast is possibly even better.

I remember watching In Ictu Oculi just before we made this record, and it’s always felt like a bit of a totem hanging over the whole thing. Something about the noise of the wind, as well, just kills me.

Video after the jump.