Features Track By Track: The Veils - Time Stays, We Go

They’d doubtless wince at the term but The Veils are becoming veterans in the game, to some extent. Their fourth album ‘Time Stays, We Go’ is a loyal fan-pleasing giant, but far from peddling a so-called veteran status, it’ll also expose itself to a ton of newcomers to the group.

Frontman Finn Andrews provided the following track-by-track account of ‘Time Stays, We Go’, an album that documents lost loves, paranoia and all the other gritty stuff. It’s out from yesterday (3rd June) on group’s own Pitch Beast Records imprint.



Through the Deep, Dark Wood
I’ve always been a fan of doing as much as you can with as few chords as possible, and this one is one of the more ostentatious having a grand total of five. It really kicks the gates open for the rest of the record and sounds best very, very loud indeed.

Train with No Name
The drum part on this song took a long while to get right as it’s ostensibly 3 drum parts at the same time. It has a big, primal beat for a backbone and is great fun to play live.

Candy Apple Red
I was playing around with my voice on this, trying to sing as quiet as possible and just use it just as one of many layers as opposed to the main focal point. The song reminds me of driving around at night in New Zealand in my teens.

Dancing with the Tornado
I wrote this about a girl I knew who used to sleepwalk and she’d often wake up on the roof of her house. She used to say she was probably up all night dancing with tornadoes.



The Pearl
I’ve been teaching myself viola at a snails pace over the last few years and this song begins with me playing several violas at the same time in an attempt to try and mask how out of tune they all are. This song is another one that’s good to drive along at night to.

Sign of Your Love
This song has become one of our favorites to play live, and now we have a brass section touring with us it has taken on quite a different feel. Someone recently asked me ‘When you sing about reaching out to ‘touch it’, are you talking about your penis?’ I’d never quite thought about it like that, but yes, yes I am.

Turn from the Rain
This is a song about dealing better with anxiety. I still don’t deal very well with it though to be honest, but singing this song does help quite a bit.

Birds
The longer you look at birds, the stranger and more complicated they become. This is a paranoid little song indeed.

Another Night on Earth
I originally wrote this to be used on our ‘Troubles of the Brain EP’ but we didn’t get a good enough recording of it until now. As anyone who grew up listening to Morrissey will attest: there’s sometimes nothing better than singing something sad in a happy way.

Out From the Valley & Into the Stars
I guess if you had to sum it up, this record is about time changing everything against your will, and this is the song that talks most directly about that. It’s about going away and coming back and everything being different and hard to understand, and is probably a song a lot of musicians will relate to.

Stream The Veils’ ‘Time Stays, We Go’ album in full via Spotify. The band play London Scala on 9th July.