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The City Is Coming to Erase It All is Fink's ninth studio album after 2024's Beauty In Your Wake. The album was recorded in Zennor, Cornwall, and produced with strict respect for the period. Imagine a record that Michael Chapman could have recorded, right down to the guitar strings. Grammy-winning producer Sam Okell helped steer the process: "If it didn't exist in 1974, you can't use it."
But this is nowstalgia, not nostalgia. "I want something new, but with the same ethos," explains singer Fin Greenall. There is a parallel between the restless 18-year-olds that Fink once were and the family men in the autumn of their lives that they are today. Touring is still as much a compulsion as a joy, even though they have played countless times in all the major European cities. "The need to play new material is so overwhelming that it trumps all comforts and trifles."
City is a product of this hunger for discovery and reverence for the album as a form - just as we had in 1974. The cover of City reflects its content, the first song is the greeting, the instrumental closing track the conclusion. It's a story. It's an album for people who, like its creators, are curious. People who are happy to put up with a bit of cold to listen to music, who light a crackling fire at home, who engage with these songs until they are ready to chase after their own blue sky.
But this is nowstalgia, not nostalgia. "I want something new, but with the same ethos," explains singer Fin Greenall. There is a parallel between the restless 18-year-olds that Fink once were and the family men in the autumn of their lives that they are today. Touring is still as much a compulsion as a joy, even though they have played countless times in all the major European cities. "The need to play new material is so overwhelming that it trumps all comforts and trifles."
City is a product of this hunger for discovery and reverence for the album as a form - just as we had in 1974. The cover of City reflects its content, the first song is the greeting, the instrumental closing track the conclusion. It's a story. It's an album for people who, like its creators, are curious. People who are happy to put up with a bit of cold to listen to music, who light a crackling fire at home, who engage with these songs until they are ready to chase after their own blue sky.