Time 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.
Finn: Whilst writing the Veils’ new record in London over the last two years, I’ve also had the pleasure of writing some songs with Kitty Finer. I’d never had much joy with writing songs with other people in the past, probably because they were always at root my songs and came with all the strange and unwieldy baggage that getting anywhere near my subconscious mind seems to entail. This was different, though, as these were very much Kitty’s songs, and so my role was far simpler and unclouded by all that complicated emotional stuff that comes with writing your own weird thoughts down.
Kitty grew up in Kentish Town, coincidentally a mere five houses down from the one I grew up in. Odd that I should end up writing songs with someone that grew up on the same street as me, but then again life does seem to be full of these neat little correlations.
We wrote a song last year called “Broken Records” about a messy breakup that ends in the dividing of the couple’s record collection, which is sincerely the best thing I’ve listened to in a very long time. Kitty has a playfulness and humour in her lyrics that I envy very much, and I know it won’t be long until the rest of the world discovers many other things to love about her too.
