The Veils-Sun Gangs-(Advance)-2009-DV8

Artist: The Veils

Title: Sun Gangs

Label: Rough Trade

Genre: Rock

Bitrate: 189kbit av.

Time: 00:41:01

Size: 58.92 mb

Rip Date: 2009-03-11

Str Date: 2009-04-06



1. Sit Down By The Fire 3:51

2. Sun Gangs 3:43

3. The Letter 3:32

4. Killed By The Boom 2:50

5. It Hits Deep 5:27

6. Three Sisters 2:32

7. The House She Lived In 3:47

8. Scarecrow 3:31

9. Larkspur 8:33

10. Begin Again 3:15



Release Notes:



The Veils are Finn Andrews, (vocals, guitar, piano, New

Zealand) Sophia Burn, (bass, New Zealand) Dan Raishbrook

(guitar, odd noise, England) and Henning Dietz (drums,

Germany). Sun Gangs is their third album, and without a doubt

their finest to date.



By turns epic, desolate, wildly romantic and anguished, Sun

Gangs is a bold and distinctive record described by Finn as 'a

very modern mixture of prayers, love letters and personal

record keeping'. Produced by Graham Sutton (Jarvis Cocker /

British Sea Power / Bark Psychosis) it is their most ambitious

record yet ranging from the yearning elegy of 'Sit Down By The

Fire', to the charred, mantis-like groove of 'Killed By The

Boom' - this is a record unlike many we are likely to hear

this year.



So many stories, words, tones and ideas punctuate its

gradually unfolding landscape as that incomparable voice cries

and hollers. ''Sit Down By The Fire' is about watching

something collapse, and it being quite pretty to look at,'

offers Finn. ''Killed By The Boom' is possibly about The

Wire's Omar Little. 'It Hits Deep' is about being a man, in a

bar alone, on a tropical island resort, as the light gets dim

and the world goes fuzzy. 'Larkspur' is somewhere else

entirely.'



'I really wanted to write something that hangs together in

perhaps a not so obvious way; not just some collection of

singles but a real voyage into something, something strange

and unspecific but totally emotionally consuming. It's also

kinda just a break-up record in many ways.'



Finn's father Barry Andrews was a founding member of the

highly influential group XTC in the late 1970s, later going on

to tour with the likes of Robert Fripp & Brian Eno, Iggy Pop &

David Bowie.



In younger days in Auckland, thousands of miles away from his

father, Finn sang at a folk club up a volcano, and sidelined a

desire to paint when he began hearing musicians like Tom

Waits, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Roy Orbison & Bob Dylan -

contemplating that there was perhaps more to life than the

bleeping Eighties electronica and early days of New Wave which

had surrounded his first London foray.



In Sun Gangs The Veils have brought Finn's early influences

full circle, and created a record that truly lives up to the

huge promise and talent that they have always exhibited.