Fink – Beauty In Your Wake review

As recording locations go, few sound more idyllic than a converted chapel in a tiny Cornish village, but for Fin Greenall, AKA Fink, it represented more. Now a resident of Berlin and with a career spanning quarter of a century as a DJ, producer and artist, the trip to Britain’s remote south west was also a form of homecoming, the offer of working in producer Sam Okell’s newly built studio too symbolic to pass up.

With fellow band members Tim Thornton (drums/guitar) and Guy Whittaker (bass) the original concept was to follow a more austere, classic folk template. But as the material evolved, Beauty In Your Wake began to pull on threads as diverse as Nick Drake and Radiohead, whilst thematically it’s creator saw it as an exercise in making “Laments, sonnets and meditations on personal growth, breaking up, making up and on songwriting itself.”

Life is what happens though, even in a place where it feels like it might not have changed. Beauty In Your Wake deals with parenthood (So We Find Ourselves In Love With You) identity (Opener What Would You Call) and sobriety (Don’t Forget To Leave), but it’s defining moments come in a mid-album run that peaks with It’s Like You Ain’t Mine No More and the epic I Don’t See You As Others Do. Roots it seems can sometimes go very deep.

You can read a full review here.