Total Depravity The Veils

• 1 Axolotl 03:02
• 2 A Bit on the Side 03:55
• 3 Low Lays the Devil 03:16
• 4 King of Chrome 04:04
• 5 Swimming with the Crocodiles 04:32
• 6 Here Come the Dead 03:14
• 7 In the Blood 03:21
• 8 Iodine & Iron 04:35
• 9 House of Spirits 04:14
• 10 Do Your Bones Glow at Night? 04:33
• 11 In the Nightfall 04:05
• 12 Total Depravity 05:04
• Total Runtime 47:55

Info for Total Depravity

London-based The Veils, fronted by lead singer and songwriter Finn Andrews, release „Total Depravity“ on Nettwerk. The album reunites the band with producers Adam 'Atom' Greenspan and Nick Launay who were behind the critically acclaimed Nux Vomica. Greenspan and Launay have also worked together on projects including Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more. In addition, Andrews and El-P (from Run The Jewels) collaborated on a few tracks that appear on the album.

„Brimming over with wee-hours-of-the-morning cold sweats, the aptly named Total Depravity finds the Veils sifting through the wreckage of heartache, regret, and Lovecraftian terror via an icy slow drip of Bad Seeds-kissed electro-funk and bluesy, minor-key wailing that suggest a dark night of the soul worthy of Sisyphus. The London-via-New Zealand-bred unit's fifth studio long-player was co-produced by Run the Jewels' co-conspirator El-P, alongside frontman Finn Andrews and Nick Cave architect Atom Greenspan, and it introduces a textural change -- a whole lot of loops and gear-driven bells and whistles -- that effectively doubles down on the group's predilection toward alternately soulful and dystopian sonic miasma. Total Depravity is largely narrative based, with Andrews taking on a host of colorful characters, including a sociopathic long haul trucker ("King of Chrome") and a neotenic Mexican salamander ("Axolotl") -- it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that he was tapped by director and longtime Veils fan David Lynch for an appearance on the newly rebooted Twin Peaks. His penchant for playing the hellfire and brimstone preacher owes more than a cursory nod to Tom Waits and the aforementioned Cave, both of whom he cites as inspirations, but his take on the dark underbelly of American culture feels as rooted in sensuality as it does in sin and salvation. There is a soulful and undeniably sultry swagger to sad-sack room clearers like "Swimming with Crocodiles," "Iodine and Iron," and the tension-filled title cut, which echoes Jeff Buckley, and while Andrews may lack the late singer/songwriter's angelic pipes, he shares his knack for making the darkness in all of us feel both hopeless and sexy.“ (James Christopher Monger, AMG)

The Veils

The Veils
Since being signed to Rough Trade when lead singer Finn Andrews was 16 years old, The Veils have now released six studio albums: The Runaway Found (2004), Nux Vomica (2006), Sun Gangs (2009), Time Stays, We Go (2013), Total Depravity (2016), …And Out Of The Void Came Love (2023) and two EP’s, The Troubles of the Brain (2011) and The Abbey Road EP (2013). Finn’s debut solo album One Piece At A Time was released in 2019.

The Veils have toured consistently throughout their twenty year history and garnered a formidable reputation as one of the world’s greatest live bands. They have also been praised by film directors Paolo Sorrentino, Tim Burton and David Lynch who have all used their music on their soundtracks. Finn now lives in New Zealand with his wife and daughter. ​

“Refreshingly passionate… Andrews rages with a Herculean intensity.” The Guardian

“Horse-whipped, lightning-crash clamor… magnetic.” Pitchfork

“One of the finest songwriters of his generation.” Drowned in Sound

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