With their new album incoming, Aotearoa outfit The Veils will perform two exclusive Australian shows in Sydney and Melbourne this August.
Led by the unwavering piano and haunting layered vocals from Finn Andrews, The Veils will release 'Fragile World' on 19 June (pre-order it), just over a year since their previous LP 'Asphodels'.
Recorded live to tape in New Zealand by Paddy Hill, with production by Tom Healy (Folk Bitch Trio, Tiny Ruins, The Chills), 'Fragile World' captures The Veils in an urgent and instinctive mode.
"I make each album, generally, as a kind of atonement for the last," Andrews says. "'Asphodels' was so quiet and introspective, I think I just wanted to make something strident and full of life for a goddamn change."
Read our reviews of The Veils' Melbourne and Sydney concerts (November 2026).
The process of making music, Andrews notes, is a delicate and fragile undertaking where thousands of small decisions gradually coalesce into a finished whole.
"We went into the studio with a lot of songs, but very little idea of the arrangements or instrumentation.
"It was truly exciting having no idea what this record would sound like and only a few weeks to figure it out. It's mostly Tom and I playing everything, with Joseph McCallum coming in at times. It was all very instinctual, quite full-on, and scary at times – but a good kind of scary, not scary like the real world out there."
The Veils have also shared the music video for their newest single 'Aurora'. "This song was written as it was being recorded, which is a very rare thing for me," admits Finn.
"The day we made it, there was a huge geomagnetic storm over parts of New Zealand, and the pictures of the aurora that followed were in all the papers. Sometimes things are so beautifully simple."
Tickets on sale from 9am AEST on 30 April.
The Veils 2026 Tour Dates
Thu Aug 20 - Oxford Arts Factory (Sydney)
Fri Aug 21 - Northcote Social Club (Melbourne)
