The Veils Announce '…And Out Of The Void Came Love' Tour + Share Single 'Undertow'

Devonport icon Finn Andrews has returned from the wilderness and reactivated his world-conquering project The Veils, revealing details this morning of a nine date tour for just-annnounced new double album …And Out Of The Void Came Love, along with lead single 'Undertow'. Embarking on their first nationwide tour since 2021's sold out Nux Vomica 15th anniversary shows, The Veils' sixth studio record (their first in seven years) brings into the fold composer Victoria Kelly (contributing string arrangements), instrumentalists Cass Basil, Dan Raishbrook, Liam Gerrard (who also created the cover artwork), Joseph McCallum, the NZTrio, and Smoke Fairies on backing vocals.

Releasing internationally via NYC's Ba Da Bing Records and locally through Banished From The Universe, Andrews envisions the long player to be a two-part listening experience: “Make a coffee or smoke a cigarette — but don’t mow the lawn or go to the movies or something, that takes too long." Exploring spiralling stairways of reflection on his heartfelt piano-led ballad 'Undertow', Andrews ponders the influence of family while pointedly crooning "And all it takes / Is all my love... It's in my blood." Don't miss The Veils and special guest Australian folk artist Grace Cummings this coming March and April...

“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, we didn't have a label anymore - it all added up to a pretty overwhelming sense that the time had come to hang up my big stupid hat. Then this song came shimmying down the drainpipe, and it really seemed to be willing 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. So yeah, it's kinda a song about that. "All it takes is all my love" - that sums the whole strange enterprise up for me nicely.” — Finn Andrews

The Veils …And Out Of The Void Came Love Tour
with special guest Grace Cummings

Thursday 16th March - Loons, Lyttelton
Friday 17th March - Dive, Dunedin
Saturday 18th March - Sherwood, Queenstown
Thursday 23th March - Totara St. Mount Maunganui
Friday 24th March - The Cabana, Napier
Saturday 25th March - The Raglan Club, Raglan
Thursday 30th March - Theatre Royal, Nelson
Friday 31th March - Opera House, Wellington
Saturday 1st April - Powerstation, Auckland

General public tickets available HERE

…And Out Of The Void Came Love' releases on 1st February, preorders available HERE.

Press release:

It’s been seven strange years since The Veils’ last studio album Total Depravity, and Finn Andrews has a new double LP to show for it. …And Out Of The Void Came Love is the result of this tumultuous period of injury, isolation and new life. Released worldwide on March 3, 2023 and celebrated on tour in New Zealand soon after.

Undertow is the ethereal first single released from the new album. A beautiful and unmistakably Veils track, but showing the chasm of space and time that has passed, and the changes the band, Andrews and the world have undergone since The Veils last release.

Released worldwide on NYC based label Ba Da Bing Records, and in Aotearoa by Banished From The Universe … And Out Of The Void Came Love is an album intended to be listened to in two sittings with a short break in the middle. Or as Andrews instructs: “Make a coffee or smoke a cigarette – but don’t mow the lawn or go to the movies or something, that takes too long."

Composer Victoria Kelly’s soaring string arrangements play an integral role in bringing the songs to life, as do musicians Cass Basil (bass), Dan Raishbrook (lap steel, guitar), Liam Gerrard (piano), Joseph McCallum (drums) the NZTrio, and special guests the Smoke Fairies on backing vocals.

The album artwork centres around a 17th century etching of the annunciation by Francesco Mazzola, corrupted by artist and keyboardist Liam Gerrard to show the figure transmogrifying into a blackhole with the force of divine love.

The Veils will be touring …And Out Of The Void Came Love in New Zealand in March & April 2023. Their first national tour since the sold out Nux Vomica 15th anniversary tour of 2021. Powerfully voiced Australian folk artist, Grace Cummings will play support on all shows.