Troubles of the Brain EP
EP by The Veils
Released	24 January 2011
Recorded	London, summer 2010
Genre	Indie, alternative rock
Label	Pitch Beast
Producer	Bernard Butler, Finn Andrews
The Veils chronology
Sun Gangs (2009) Troubles of the Brain EP (2011)

Troubles of the Brain is the first EP by the Veils, out on 24 January 2011 on Pitch Beast Records. Finn Andrews set up his own label to release the Veils' first EP after leaving Rough Trade after almost 9 years. It was recorded at Andrews' home studio in London, and produced by Andrews and Bernard Butler. The first single from the EP was "The Stars Came Out Once the Lights Went Out".

Track listing

• CD (PITCD001)

1. "Bloom"
2. "Don't Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice"
3. "The Stars Came Out Once the Lights Went Out"
4. "The Wishbone"
5. "Grey Lynn Park"
6. "Us Godless Teenagers"
7. "Iodine and Iron (Bonus Track)"

The EP possibly takes its name from Act 5 Scene 3 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

MACBETH
"Cure her of that.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?"

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