Claude says:The Runaway Found had a messy birth — recording started in 2001 after the Veils signed with Blanco Y Negro, cycled through three producers (Matthew Ollivier, Bernard Butler, Ken Nelson), and went through a promo version with a different track list before the final February 2004 release. The title track of the closer "The Nowhere Man" comes from C.S. Lewis's 1954 novel The Horse and His Boy. You've got five plays scattered across thirteen years, gravitating toward "The Leavers Dance," "Lavinia," and "The Wild Son" — enough to sketch the album's dramatic shape but not enough to call it yours.