Fink – The City Is Coming To Erase it All

Winter Gorse Colour

Tracklist:

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. I Buried All The Answers
8. Spirit Of Place

This is nowstalgia more than nostalgia, though; theres a parallel between these 18-year-olds and Finks autumn-aged family men. Youre expected to be boring and settling down at this age, Thornton says. But weve still got this tremendous wanderlust. We want to go and discover, and also achieve things. Its a nice life home and family but fuck, I cant 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. Citys cover mirrors its interior, the first song is the greeting, the instrumental closer the conclusion. Its a story. Its 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 theyre ready to chase after their own blue sky