On The City Is Coming to Erase It All, Fink – the project of Fin Greenall – looks to the quietly radical tradition of southwest England songwriters, taking inspiration from Michael Chapman’s Fully Qualified Survivor while shaping a record driven by curiosity and forward motion. Opener Wishing For Blue Sky captures the ache of waiting for life to begin, its open-tuned acoustic and crunching footsteps framing a teenage urge to escape. As a young man, Greenall left suburban Bristol to travel, while Tim Thornton busked across Europe; those early leaps into the unknown echo throughout these songs. Carefully sequenced from greeting to instrumental farewell, The City Is Coming to Erase It All unfolds as a complete statement: reflective, searching and made for listeners ready to chase their own blue sky.