Fink

DHP PRESENTS

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.