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.
Soph: Have you seen this man? This man is amazing. This man plays guitar. This man, just this week, when we had to go to the American Embassy to get visas a bit early in the morning, when asked whether, afterwards, he might like to go to brunch with his close friends, said he’d have to see, because he might be too tired.
This man lives with four dogs, and sometimes he can’t make it to soundcheck because one of the dogs has eaten all the other dogs medications, but he doesn’t know which one, and he has to take them all to the vet so they can induce vomiting, and then monitor them, because if it’s one of the small dogs, their heart might suddenly just stop.
This man once pretending to surf on a piece of plywood balanced on a block of ice in a back alley behind a hotel in a small town in the Netherlands. This man loves standing on chairs because it makes him taller. This man once stormed out of a restaurant because a menu was laminated. This man does not like to be disturbed while sleeping.
When we see people we haven’t seen for a long time, and this man isn’t with us, the first thing they say, every single time, is, ‘Where’s Dan?’ Girls he once knew still bring him cans of his favorite beer at shows. Nobody brings us cans of our favorite beer.
This man is beloved.
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