Fink

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Fink
– Angela Autumn

The City Is Coming to Erase It All is Fink’s ninth studio album, following 2024’s
Beauty In Your Wake. Recorded in Zennor, Cornwall, the album was made with a
strict era-specific approach. Imagining a record Michael Chapman might have made,
right down to the guitar strings. Grammy-winning producer Sam Okell helped guide
the process: “If it didn’t exist in 1974, you’re not allowed to use it.”
But this is nowstalgia, not nostalgia. “I want something new, but with the same
ethos,” singer Fin Greenall explains. There’s a parallel between the restless
18-year-olds Fink once were and the autumn-aged family men they are now. Touring
remains a compulsion as much as a joy, despite having played every major
European city countless times. “The need to play your new material is so
overwhelming that it trumps all the comforts and trinkets.”
City is a product of this hunger for discovery, and idolatry of the album as a form –
like we had in 1974. City’s cover mirrors its interior, the first song is the greeting, the
instrumental closer the conclusion. It’s a story. It’s a record for people who, like its
creators, are curious. People who happily face a little cold for music, who light a
crackling fire back home, who sit with these songs until they’re ready to chase after
their own blue sky.