- 2026-03-03
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MUSIC
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The Veils Announces New Album “Fragile World”, Shares New Song “Lungs”
New Zealand-based alt-rock band The Veils has announced their upcoming eighth studio album “Fragile World” will be released on June 19, 2026 via V2 Records.
It is their first album in over year, following the 2025 album “Asphodels”.
The album comprises 10 tracks, which the band recorded live to tape with producer Tom Healy in New Zealand by Paddy Hill.
From the album, the band released the first single called “Lungs” on February 27, 2026.
It was written by Finn Andrews and produced by Tom Healy.
The band frontman Finn Andrews said of the song, “I make each album, generally, as a kind of atonement for the last. Asphodels was so quiet and introspective, I think I just wanted to make something strident and full of life for a goddamn change. I wrote the lyric for this years ago, while I still lived in London and I still smoked fags.”- The album's title is both a reflection of the present moment - a time in which many institutions appear to be crumbling before our eyes - and a metaphor for the act of creation itself.
He said of the album, “We went into the studio with a lot of songs, but very little idea of the arrangements or instrumentation. It was truly exciting having no idea what this record would sound like and only a few weeks to figure it out. It's mostly Tom and I playing everything, with Joseph McCallum coming in at times. It was all very instinctual, quite full-on, and scary at times - but a good kind of scary, not scary like the real world out there.” -
“Fragile World” Track List- “Aurora”
- “High Hopes”
- “Lungs”
- “Are You Awake Tonight?”
- “New Day”
- “Little White Bird (Fragile World)”
- “The Widening Dark”
- “My Foolish Heart”
- “These Are the Days”
- “In This Heart”
Photo by Frances Carter - source : Apple Music
