The City Is Coming To Erase It All

On The City Is Coming to Erase It All, Fink – the project of Fin Greenall – looks to the quietly radical tradition of southwest England songwriters, taking inspiration from Michael Chapman’s Fully Qualified Survivor while shaping a record driven by curiosity and forward motion. Opener ‘Wishing For Blue Sky’ captures the ache of waiting for life to begin, its open-tuned acoustic and crunching footsteps framing a teenage urge to escape. As a young man, Greenall left suburban Bristol to travel, while Tim Thornton busked across Europe; those early leaps into the unknown echo throughout these songs. Less nostalgia than “nowstalgia”, the album balances family life with the pull of the road. Carefully sequenced from greeting to instrumental farewell, The City Is Coming to Erase It All unfolds as a complete statement: reflective, searching and made for listeners ready to chase their own blue sky.