Perhaps it is due to Andrews’ exceptionally early start in music (he wrote their debut at 14 years old) that THE VEILS have never been a band that enjoyed staying in one place for too long. THE VEILS have now released five records and one EP - The Runaway Found (2004), Nux Vomica (2006), Sun Gangs (2009), The Troubles of the Brain EP (2011) Time Stays, We Go (2014) and now Total Depravity (2016). It was in high school there that Andrews met bass player Sophia Burn, eventually forming THE VEILS and being joined later by drummer Henning Dietz, guitarist Dan Raishbrook and keyboardist Uberto Rapisardi. But it wasn’t until Finn Andrews moved from his father in the UK to New Zealand with his mother at age 12 that he started writing songs of his own, many of which would form 2004’s debut album, The Runaway Found. His father, Barry Andrews, was one of the founding members of new wave pioneers XTC and longtime collaborator with Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. The sinister beauty of Total Depravity represents THE VEILS’ largest stylistic shift to date and exhibits a band at the peak of their creative powers.Īndrews has lived a life of constant musical immersion. With its extreme sonic contrasts, mutilated loops, bold lyricism and evangelical fervor, Total Depravity is an unpredictable journey, helmed by the exceptional production work of El-P (Run the Jewels), and Adam “Atom” Greenspan.

Total Depravity is the fifth studio album from THE VEILS and marks the beginning of a new era for the band and frontman Finn Andrews. “’Total Depravity’ is a masterwork of raw, violent, and romantic deconstruction - lurching consistently between beauty and brutality, it is a portrait of a band expanding their sonic horizons and relishing the freedom of their art.

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