The Veils - Nux Nomica

For the Veils' second studio outing, Nux Nomica, fiery frontman Finn Andrews, the son of Barry Andrews (XTC, Shriekback) assembled an entirely new backing band. The resulting album is far more accomplished then its predecessor, The Runaway Found, and features stark, urgent, and intense songs that justifiably warrant comparisons to Nick Cave and Jeff Buckley, as evinced on the wound-up "Not Yet" and the howling "Jesus for the Jugular."