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ROBOTIC
Mar '26
Episode 1
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FEATURING: Father John Misty, Girl Scout, Softcult, Still Blank. She's In Parties, Amamelia, Team Trust, Bee Bee Sea, Art School Girlfriend, Westside Cowboy, Ecca Vandal, HighSchool, Love Spells, & Jonathan Bree.
ALT | INDIE | RETRO | RADIO
When the world's gone crazy, we offer the good kind of insanity.
Father John Misty - The Old Law | Girl Scout - Operator | Softcult - Queen Of Nothing | Still Blank - Get Over It | She's In Parties - R.E.M. | Amamelia - Summerlong | Team Trust - Together, Together | Bee Bee Sea - Angel | Art School Girlfriend - The Peaks | Westside Cowboy - Can't See | Ecca Vandal - MOLLY | HighSchool - Sony Ericsson | Love Spells - I Wish I Didn't Love You |
Following the release of Total Depravity, Andrews released a solo album and began a worldwide tour. One night, while lashing out at a particularly intense moment on piano, he broke his wrist on stage. “It sounds wild and Jerry Lee Lewis-esque, but it was an absolute fucking nightmare,” Andrews says. He played on and finished the rest of the tour, but it wasn’t until he got it examined much later that he realized what a bad move that was. “The scaphoid bone in my wrist had died, which I didn’t know was possible. My sister said that at least it was a really ‘on brand’ injury for me.”
Finn’s convalescence meant a lengthy hiatus from touring, so he did what he does best and stayed at home and wrote songs. “I was in a cast and couldn’t use my right hand. I sang the melody lines, then recorded the right hand piano part, then the left hand part. It might have been an interesting, avant-garde process if it wasn’t also just profoundly annoying.”
Just when his hand had healed sufficiently for him to play again, The Veils found themselves in need of a new record label but Finn set about starting to make a new record regardless. Producer Tom Healy invited Finn to his small studio underneath the old Crystal Palace ballroom in Mount Eden, and they listened through the legions of songs he had amassed throughout the previous year.
By the time the songs had been recorded, it was clear that arranging the album into two halves best suited such varied material - but the meaning of the songs as a whole still eluded Andrews. “Then my daughter was born, and suddenly the whole record made sense to me,” he says. The music was telling a story, and somewhat strangely for The Veils, it seemed to have a happy ending.
