The Veils Release New Single & Music Video ‘Aurora’

24 April 2026

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.”

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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 19 on V2 Records, stands as one of The Veils’ most compelling releases to date.

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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 25 June 2026 @ Dunedin, Errick’s

Fri 26 June 2026 @ Wānaka, Lake Wānaka Centre

Sat 27 June 2026 @ Auckland, The Powerstation
Part of Strange Universe Winter 2026

Thurs 2 July @ The Loons, Lyttelton

Fri 3 July @ Last Place, Hamilton

Sat 4 July @ Meow Nui, Wellington

Wed 8 July @ Deville, Nelson (SOLO)

Thurs 9 July @ The Dome, Gisborne (SOLO)

Fri 10 July @ War Memorial Centre Concert Chamber, Whanganui (SOLO)