Shannon Lay Announces New Album, Shares "Past The Veil" Single | 'Past The Veil' LP Out July 28th via All The Best

Shannon Lay Announces New Album, Shares "Past The Veil" Single via FLOOD Magazine Past The Veil LP Out July 28th via All The Best

Photo Credit: Joanna Grace Babb LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Shannon Lay - "Past The Veil" Stream | YouTube Shannon Lay has announced her new album Past The Veil, due out on July 28th via All The Best, her new record label. She's also shared the luscious, dreamlike lead single "Past The Veil"–the track is a pleasurable mix of blissful keys, tender vocal arrangements, and buoyant basslines. "Past The Veil is about turning towards discomfort and moving into it in order to get out of it," she explains. "Learning how to be present with our emotions requires a lot of practice. I hope this can be a reminder to continue that courageous work and live more freely because of it." Lay’s seraphic voice and fingerpicking has long been a guiding spirit — a compassionate steward of tender hearts and minds. For the last decade, her music has offered a retreat from one’s worries, and created a refuge out of delicate and minimalist arrangements. With her new studio album, Past the Veil, she proffers the same care and understanding, and a similar emotional timbre, but from an entirely different sonic vantage point. Rather than weaving a safe cocoon in which listeners may hide out, Past the Veil rips it apart, offering a bold invitation to move through our discomfort and uncertainty. It is the sound of rebirth. It is a chance to stand up, join together, and maybe even dance. “I wanted to make something that was a little more uplifting and really encouraging,” the 35 year old singer-songwriter says. “I wanted to impart a sense of togetherness by gathering members of my creative community to channel the spirit of what wanted to be made.” Beginning in 2024, Lay teamed up with Los Angeles recording engineer and producer Rob Shelton of Altamira Sound in Alhambra, and began writing songs on the spot, with various local musicians joining them to flesh out the tracks. Their first collaborative effort became the single “Mirrors,” a soft-rock meditation released in April that year, which positioned Lay’s voice over a rich full-band arrangement. “As soon as we finished that song, I knew I wanted that sound and feeling to compose the entire next record,” Lay says. Over the next year, Lay allowed Shelton to help move her out of her usual minimalist frequency, and write a collection of songs that incorporated everything from drum machines to string arrangements and pedal steel guitar. Lay also sings with the might of her full range — sounding bolder and more powerful than ever before — all while maintaining her characteristic softheartedness.  Past the Veil is Lay’s most expansive album yet, an extension of the abundance mindset she chose to adopt as she navigated big changes. On top of literal and metaphorical hellfire (the Altadena and Pacific Palisades fires of January 2025; the entirety of Trump’s second term in office), Lay also parted ways with her previous record label which inspired her to lean into trusting herself and her community. Past the Veil is the first release from her new artist-run label, All The Best, where she’ll issue her own music as well as some of her friends’.  With her new album, Lay embraces Alan Watts’ idea that “The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” If the only way forward is through, it follows that we must all go Past The Veil. "Past The Veil" is out today via All The Best. Shannon Lay - "Past The Veil" Past The Veil - TRACKLISTING 1. Moving 2. What Does It Mean 3. Honest Man 4. The Calling 5. Past The Veil 6. Whom Gods Destroy 7. Horizons 8. Room For Less 9. Sky Song 10. I Need More Water