Fink - (PRESALE 6/5/26) The City Is Coming to Erase It All (BOOKLET CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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    The City Is Coming to Erase It All
    (Booklet)
    Artist: Fink Format: CD Release Date: 6/5/2026 

    Label: R'coup'd
    Vendor: Amplified Media Services, LLC
    Distributor: AMPED
    UPC: 5053760143390
    Genre: Rock
    Release Date: 6/5/2026
    Product ID: RCPU27.2
    Weight: .25 lb

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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 jig sawing 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. "You're expected to be boring and settling down at this age," Thornton says. "But we've still got this tremendous wanderlust. We want to go and discover and also achieve things. It's a nice life - home and family - but f***, I can't wait to get back out there." 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 it's interior, the first song is the greeting, the instrumental closer the conclusion. It's a story. It's a record for people who, like it's 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.

    Tracks
    Credits

    1 Wishing for Blue Sky
    2 Does the Shade Choose Who to Comfort
    3 Two Magpies
    4 Memorise Your Senses
    5 Dark Edges
    6 Keeping You Awake
    7 Buried All the Answers
    8 Spirit of Place

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: CD
• Genre: ALT/INDIE
• Format Type: CD
• Released: 06/05/2026