{"product_id":"the-city-coming-to-erase-it-all","title":"The City Is Coming To Erase it All","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-GB\" class=\"TextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003eThese days – on the new, ninth Fink album – Greenall is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003eoperating\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003ecalled Fully Qualified Survivor. The cult-classic served as a lodestar for Greenall – along with bandmates Tim Thornton and Guy Whittaker – as he began \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003ejigsawing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e together The City Is Coming to Erase it All, the follow-up to 2024’s \u003cem\u003eBeauty \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003eIn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e Your Wake.\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW153947096 BCX4\" data-ccp-props='{\"335559685\":-993}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-GB\" class=\"TextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW153947096 BCX4\" data-ccp-props='{\"335559685\":-993}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN-GB\" class=\"TextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003eThis is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003enowstalgia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e more than nostalgia, though; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003ethere’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003ewe’ve\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e still got this tremendous wanderlust. We want to go and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003ediscover, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e also achieve things. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003eIt’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e a nice life – home and family – but fuck, I \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003ecan’t\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e 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 its interior, the first song is the greeting, the instrumental closer the conclusion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003eIt’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e a story. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003eIt’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003ethey’re\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW153947096 BCX4\"\u003e ready to chase after their own blue sky.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"R'Coup'd","offers":[{"title":"LP - Winter Gorse","offer_id":56652979831115,"sku":"R5111-0721","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56652979863883,"sku":"R5111-3027","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56652979896651,"sku":"R5111-6290","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"2LP - Sprong Green and Black","offer_id":56672850903371,"sku":"R5111-6592","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Fink-TheCityIsComingToEraseItAll-RCPD27-Packshot.jpg?v=1772285404","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/the-city-coming-to-erase-it-all","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}