The new TVNZ series "Nothing Trivial" has handpicked a Veils song for the opening credits of the show. "The Stars Came Out Once The Light sWent Out" will be featured at the beginning of each episode, providing a dynamic backdrop to the trials and tribulations of a 'forty something' pub quiz set.

Enjoy the excerpt from episode two of the 13 part series.

Iconic London-based band, The Veils have announced the release of what could be their most enthralling work to date. The 'Troubles Of The Brain' 6-track EP will be available online and in-store from January 24.

The release comes after the group's critically acclaimed third album 'Sun Gangs', and a string of sell-out shows across the globe, including the promptly sold-out double-headline dates in Sydney and Melbourne with Oh Mercy last November.

The EP sessions were recorded at lead singer/songwriter Finn Andrews' home studio in London over the summer and were overseen by producer Bernard Butler (Suede, The Libertines). Subjects covered include the pop music staples of love, betrayal, addiction and death - with bees, original sin and iPhones thrown in for good measure.

The joyous first single to radio is The Stars Came Out Once The Lights Went Out , which showcases Andrews' maturing song writing talent, and The Veils at their poppy and unpredictable best.

'Troubles Of The Brain' will be the band's first release on their own label, Pitch Beast, which in their own words is "somewhat of an experiment in DIY music distribution". The EP will be launched worldwide from January 24.

"Possibly the best thing I've seen in rock music this year, they really, truly frightened me." LA Times

"The Veils tale has been a gripping one so far, and it just got even better." Drowned in Sound

The Veils add Australian tour dates to their Antipodean tour!

Ever since releasing third album Sun Gangs to worldwide critical acclaim, an Australian tour by The Veils has been highly anticipated.

Australians have had a long distance love affair with The Veils since release of their debut album The Runaway Found and then with the Triple J anthem ‘Advice For Young Mothers To Be' from the Nux Vomica album.

Their last Australian tour saw sold out shows in Melbourne and Sydney, and the LA Times recently posted "... as far as their set last night went, it was probably the most moving, unsettling and unexpectedly haunting thing I've seen in rock music this year... terrifying in all the best ways." 

Click here for details on their NZ and Australian shows.

Finn Andrews from The Veils has released a new song and made it available online.

Here is what he has to say about Turn From The Rain.

"This song was recorded last week in my flat in London in an attempt

to extinguish a heavy case of post-American-tour-anxiety.

Please freely download and distribute as you wish."

Finn

Listen or download the song here.

The LA times has reviewed The Veils live show at Spaceland...

"A singer's fragility is one of the trickier things for a band to make interesting. The Brit-rock canon is full of excellent sad-sack mopers, but just underneath Morrissey or Robert Smith's misery is usually a touch of camp, cocky snarl or starry romanticism that suggests they're going to make it out of the bar OK at the end of the night. You have to find different shades within your black moods and make something new from them.

Finn Andrews, the striking frontman of the Veils, has a streak of lovelorn bleakness as deep as the night is long. At Spaceland on Wednesday night, the U.K.-via-New Zealand quartet did something I'm not sure I'll see again in rock music today -- they really, truly frightened me.

Their set was on a constant knife's edge between Andrews' vibrato-for-days vocals and relentlessly creative guitar playing, and the sense that when he sings a line like "There's a bulls'-blooded fountain in the pit of a moan" (from the fantastic noise blast "Jesus for the Jugular"), he might actually have seen such a thing on the walk from the club parking lot. His Flannery O'Connor-style creepy preacher hat, and an unshaven, alabaster complexion that suggests he lives off a varied diet of scotches, only accented the band's sense of gnawing doom -- though it was leavened with melodic sweetness and a lovely ear for arrangement detail.

Now, I'm a total sucker for this sort of thing. I have no idea if Andrews, after a show, is still a version of his onstage personality, or if he cracks a six-pack with the boys and plays Wii tennis. But as far as his set last night went, it was probably the most moving, unsettling and unexpectedly haunting thing I've seen in rock music this year.

The thing that caught me off-guard about the Veils live is that, on record, they come from a long line of bands up to something similar. They were obviously raised on the good stuff -- the Smiths, Pulp, Scott Walker -- but going into their set, I wasn't sure if there was still blood to be squeezed from those stones. A quick pass through "Nux Vomica" and the recent "Sun Gangs" proves the Veils have obvious debts to bands with big tenors and dense verses. But whatever that weird, implacable thing is in a singer that makes you just have to look at them, Andrews is soaked in it. It takes an otherwise evocative song and makes it terrifying in all the best ways."

Read more here.

Finn Andrews, (vocals, guitar, piano) and Sophia Burn (bass) from The Veils discuss the making of the album, touring the U.S and Finn's story of the consolations featured in artwork. A fascinating look behind the incredible album Sun Gangs.

Or watch it here

CLASH - 8/10 "...this is a band at the height of their creative talent and you are privileged to be a part of it"
INPRESS - "Sun Gangs has it all: strong song writing, excellent performances and an interesting lyrical bent"

UNCUT - 4/5 "Big, bold experiments in guitar rock"

Q - "finely wraught, dramatic indie rock"

MOJO - 4/5 "chilling, epic...desolately pretty"

MUSIC WEEK - "Why The Veils aren't critically revered with the passion showered on lesser bands is a mystery of Bermuda Triangle proportions"

THE FLY 4/5 - "A richly evocative collection of near-classic tunes...'Sun Gangs' will burn long in the memory"

INDEPENDENT INFORMATION "swishy art-rock dealt with dash, panache and passion"

MX - "An erratic bark and full body shudder worthy of The Drones, though The Veils are cleaner in general"

RAVE - "The Veils still have plenty of darkness in their well dressed souls"

INPRESS - "The Veils have recorded their best album yet with their third record Sun Gangs"

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.

The video clip for the song The Letter can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkJ0WFM7XU