Following the critically acclaimed release of ‘Asphodels’ in 2025, The Veils quickly return with a bold and invigorated new album titled ‘Fragile World’, out 19 June on V2 Records. The first single ‘Lungs’ is released today.
Arriving just over a year after their last 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.
As can be heard on the first single ‘Lungs’ of which frontman Finn Andrews says: “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. 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’ stands as one of The Veils’ most compelling releases to date.
Next to the album new EU/UK tour dates are confirmed:
Wed 04 Nov 2026 BG Sofia Sofia Live Club
Thu 05 Nov 2026 TUR Istanbul Salon IKSV
Fri 06 Nov 2026 RO Bucharest Control Club
Sat 07 Nov 2026 GR Athens Arch Club
Wed 11 Nov 2026 BE Antwerp. Trix
Thu 12 Nov 2026 FR Lille Grand Mix
Fri 13 Nov 2026 FR Paris Maroquinerie
Sat 14 Nov 2026 CH Fribourg Nouveau Monde
Tue 17 Nov 2026 IT Bologna Locomotiv
Wed 18 Nov 2026 IT Milan. Magnolia
Thu 19 Nov 2026 CH Winterthur Salzhaus Winterthur
Sat 21 Nov 2026 AT Vienna Chelsea
Sun 22 Nov 2026 CZ Prague Cafe V lese
Tue 24 Nov 2026 DE Berlin Gretchen
Wed 25 Nov 2026 DE Hamburg Molotow Club
Fri 27 Nov 2026 NL Nijmegen Doornroosje
Sat 28 Nov 2026 NL Groningen Ooosterpoort
Sun 29 Nov 2026 NL Amsterdam Paradiso
Tue 01 Dec 2026 UK Manchester YES
Wed 02 Dec 2026 UK Glasgow G2
Thu 03 Dec 2026 UK Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Fri 04 Dec 2026 UK London Islington Assembly Hall
Since being signed to Rough Trade Records when lead singer Finn Andrews was just 16 years old, The Veils have now released eight 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), Asphodels (2025) and Fragile World (2026).
The Veils have toured consistently throughout their over twenty-year history and garnered a formidable reputation as one of the world’s great live bands. As well as a fruitful collaboration with Run the Jewels’ El-P for their 2016 album Total Depravity, they have also been praised by film directors Paolo Sorrentino, Tim Burton and David Lynch, who have all used their music on their soundtracks.
The Veils made their glorious return to the stage in 2023/24 with sold out shows across Europe, North America & Australasia through 2023-2025. The band will begin touring significantly again in support of Fragile World through 2026.
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