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The Runaway Found is to be filed alongside Coldplay, Starsailor and Snow Patrol.
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They’re a perfect opening band: professional and sufficiently appealing on a sonic level without risking upstaging the headliner with any distinct personality or emotional resonance.
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Despite its maturity, melodic strength, and direct connection to what came before, Runaway Found can't fully distance itself from the suspicion that it might just be "eh" in the long run.
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The Veils debut is a colossal - yet strangely intimate - record.
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'The Runaway Found' may have sounded great in 1996, but it also sounds great now, and by our reckoning it always will.
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Eyebrow-raising in print, they sound gripping here because of Andrews' glorious dagger-through-honey vocals, which combine with occasional strings and his band's raw passion to produce a corking debut.
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The Runaway Found is an incredibly focused first album, giving evidence of how serious the Veils are about composing a stylish, quality sound.
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If you like your heart soaked in red wine, and your records to sigh and sway, come hither.
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Falls between Starsailor, Travis, Elbow, Alfie, etc, always raising the question: who are The Veils?
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An arrestingly epic and assured debut. [Amazon UK review]
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UncutIntoxicating. [Mar 2004, p.87]
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Q MagazineWhat elevates The Veils above pleasant distraction... is [Andrews'] extraordinary, chameleon-like voice. [Mar 2004, p.113]
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Alternative PressWhere Starsailor failed at morphing Britpop with orchestral flair, the Veils soar. [Aug 2004, p.118]
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BlenderThere's a fine line between sounding passionate and overwrought, but [The Veils] find themselves on the proper side of that smudgy barrier--just. [Aug 2004, p.142]
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MojoAll pomp and bluster, like Coldplay at their most bombastic. [Mar 2004, p.108]
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FilterEnigmatically beautiful, yet stinging with bitter cold. [#10, p.90]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 18
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Mixed: 0 out of 18
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Negative: 1 out of 18
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nt.TanvilaiPongJun 18, 2006I love this album It sounds like nothing I've heard for many years.
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AnthonySOct 26, 2005
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DeirdreSJun 25, 2005Every osng shines - one of the best albums of recent years