The Runaway Found is The Veils debut album, released on February 16 2004. The record was preceded by several singles, from More Heat Than Light (November 2002) to The Wild Son (January 2004).
The last single Lavinia was released in November 2003, alongside a first promotional version of the album which featured a different running order and tracklist. In fact ...& One of Us Must Go and Wires to Flying Birds did not make the final version and were later replaced by The Wild Son and The Valleys of New Orleans. Because of its long gestation (the recording sessions started straight after the band's first deal with Blanco Y Negro in 2001) the record has three different producers: Matthew Ollivier, Bernard Butler and Ken Nelson.
The fourth song on the set, More Heat Than Light, gives credits to Finn's father Barry Andrews as co-author. According to the booklet notes the inspiration for the last song of the set "The Nowhere Man" is taken from the 1954 novel by C.S. Lewis "The Horse and His Boy". .