Fink

“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.

Special guest and support tonight is Angela Autumn, a country folk artist from the Appalachian in Pennsylvania. She puts elements from her small hometown in her music and moved to Nashville to grow as an artist. After releasing multiple albums, including “Cowboy Jack Clementine” (2023), and making numerous social media videos that racked up millions of views, both her sound and her tradition started to find recognition: she was awarded the nickname of “The Rose of Appalachia”.