The Veils
The Runaway Found

THE REVIEW

There's no point in telling ourselves enormous lies about the fact that simple rock, intimate, subtly melancholic no longer affects us. It is sometimes completely unnecessary to say that a certain type of rock is copied and overly saturated.
Even more so if the first muffled lament, accompanied by four well-arpeggiated chords and an interesting vocal tone, sends us rushing to the first music store.

This album has great class.
Finn Andrews, a frontman on the verge of anorexia, manages to compose extremely poetic and captivating songs.

See my love is asleep on the floor
In a pose that’s familiar
See my sun will just send you to war
If the battle won’t kill ya (Lavinia)

The Veils' rock is melancholic, twisted, labyrinthine, and tremendously engaging. The album features classic pop-rock songs, growled, fast (More Heat Than Light), alternating them with more dreamy and intricate atmospheres (Talk Down The Girl), looking towards that whole group of artists who favor these qualities, such as Coldplay, JJ72, Sophia…
It is precisely in the slower parts that The Runaway Found lights up, revealing its true nature: a small and melancholic little gem at the end of winter.

"Lavinia," the single that introduced them to the majority, is present on the album in a version that is a circular vortex without precise boundaries (almost 6 minutes), much less harsh compared to the one currently on rotation on music channels: softened by diffused reverberations, with more space given to the violins, but especially by the frontman's voice, less shouted, yet marked more, however, by a strong New Zealand accent (Chaiinge = Change, Naiime = Name, and so on).
Vicious Traditions, with its crescendo driven by the "emerge from the darkness" march of bass and drums, is the track that is worth the purchase of the entire album alone. In this episode, Finn almost sounds like he's nervously speaking to someone who has wronged him rather than singing, accompanied by a sunny arpeggio contrasting with that atmosphere that, in some ways, truly makes the album dark.

Amid so much "borrowed" material from elsewhere, the rock of the Veils still manages to surprise for something mysterious and convoluted, inherent in the songs, yet still not clear what it is.