New Music & Video Release - The Veils release single & music video Aurora from 'Fragile World' album - 24th April 2026
Credit - Frances Carter
Artist Name - The Veils
Release Name - Fragile World
Release Date - 24th April 2026
Genre - Gothic Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Label - V2 Records
After the release of ‘Lungs’ the first single off The Veils new album ‘Fragile World’, and announcing a 10-date New Zealand album tour, comes ‘Aurora’, the next single from The Veils with accompanying music video from award winning director Alexander Gandar.
On the new single The Veils frontman Finn Andrews says: “This song was written as it was being recorded, which is a very rare thing for me. The day we made it, there was a huge geomagnetic storm over parts of New Zealand, and the pictures of the aurora that followed were in all the papers. Sometimes things are so beautifully simple.”
Arriving just over a year after their album release, ‘Fragile World’ marks a striking shift in tone and energy for the band. Recorded live to tape in New Zealand by Paddy Hill, with production by Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, The Chills, Folk Bitch Trio), ‘Fragile World’, captures The Veils in an urgent and instinctive mode.
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. The process of making music, Andrews notes, is a delicate and fragile undertaking where thousands of small decisions gradually coalesce into a finished whole.
“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.”
With its immediacy, intensity, and emotional clarity, ‘Fragile World’ out June 19th on V2 Records, stands as one of The Veils’ most compelling releases to date.
The nationwide tour alongside Banished Music includes 6 band shows featuring the closing show of Strange Universe: Winter in Auckland, and 4 solo performances.
BANISHED MUSIC PRESENTS - THE VEILS - FRAGILE WORLD - AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND, 2026
Thurs 25th June 2026 - Dunedin, Errick’s
Fri 26th June 2026 - Wānaka, Lake Wānaka Centre
Sat 27th June 2026 - Auckland, The Powerstation - Part of Strange Universe Winter 2026
Thurs 2nd July - The Loons, Lyttelton
Fri 3rd July - Last Place, Hamilton
Sat 4th July - Meow Nui, Wellington
Wed 8th July - Deville, Nelson (SOLO)
Thurs 9th July - The Dome, Gisborne (SOLO)
Fri 10th July - War Memorial Centre Concert Chamber, Whanganui (SOLO)
Sat 11th July - Puketapu Hall, Hawke’s Bay (SOLO)
Tickets on sale now from www.banishedmusic.com