Fink - The City Is Coming To Erase It All Fink

These days – on the new, ninth Fink album – Greenall is operating within a lineage of authentic, quietly revolutionary artists from England’s verdant southwestern toe.
Artists like Michael Chapman.

In 1970, the elusive acoustic guitar wizard released an album called Fully Qualified Survivor.
The cult-classic served as a lodestar for Greenall – along with bandmates Tim Thornton and Guy Whittaker – as he began jigsawing together The City Is Coming to Erase it All, the follow-up to 2024’s Beauty In Your Wake.

He even considered covering a song from it, but in the process, inadvertently stumbled into what became the album’s opener.
‘Wishing For Blue Sky’ circles a universal teenage ache: waiting for life to start.
“No point dying of patience” goes the first lyric as crunching footsteps cue a resonant, open-tuned acoustic swaying into view.
By 18, Greenall was fed up with waiting, so he left suburban Bristol and saw the world, sending postcards from the edge, waiting tables, squirreling away tips for the next flight.
Thornton had similar experiences when the guitarist/drummer busked across Europe.

This is nowstalgia more than nostalgia, though; there’s a parallel between these 18-year-olds and Fink’s autumn-aged family men.