From Their Seventh Album Asphodels New Zealand’s The Veils Present Folk Dreams With The Ladder

Photo by Katya Brook

The Veils 
The Ladder 
New Zealand 
 
The single from the brand-new Veils album Asphodels, New Zealand rock n roll crooner Finn Andrews takes his band to the next level. The Veils have recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of their first record, The Runaway Found. A force of nature like an oceanic current, the continual push of fresh and chilled creativity gently melts into the hub of activity as its released. This is their seventh record, and the singer remarks that by this time the band have fully fledged and it’s time to stop counting. Does life ever stop teaching us lessons? Perhaps the ladder can help us to find out if there are any left.  
 
The epic voice of Finn Andrews casts out like gusts of colourful breeze. Piano joins his melody, creating fluid and harmonising waves for his vocal boat to glide across. Haunting instruments hang gently in the background as the drums build to bring out the chorus, Snare-driven beats then adapt to greet a rhythmic piano as bass and string rise in melancholic hopefulness. We can sing with the lyrics; its repeating phrase makes the chorus memorable and morish. A graceful journey of poetic intrigue and forlorn dreams, The Ladder is a classic already.  

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Also, Asphodels are a mythical flower from the Greek Underworld. You can learn all about it in this book: ​Greek Mythology: An Exciting Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Myths and Traditions of Ancient Greece.
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