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Fink releases acoustic EP, featuring versions of tracks from ‘Resurgam’ and new track “Divide”

FINK ANNOUNCE RESURGAM ACOUSTIC SESSION EP

Out now on R’COUP’D via Inertia Music

Featured stripped-back versions of tracks from Resurgam;
and one new song, “Divide”

Fink have announced a new acoustic EP titled Resurgam Acoustic Session. The EP features versions of three tracks from the band’s current album Resurgam: “This Isn’t A Mistake“, “There’s Just Something About You“, and the album’s title track, as well as a brand new song, “Divide“.

Speaking about what led to the band making the acoustic EP, Fin Greenall explains:

“One day in the making of ‘Resurgam’, Flood had a few days off to go to Glastonbury Festival, so we thought – everything is fresh in our minds and fingers, let’s use the time.

One of our brilliant engineers, Richie volunteered for the task and we basically played every track we had acoustically and recorded it. Some we made up on the spot, others just played themselves and a few turned out really nice and spontaneous and truly acoustic.”

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Resurgam Acoustic Session

1. Resurgam
2. This Isn’t A Mistake
3. There’s Just Something About You
4. Divide

Resurgam Acoustic Session by Fink is out now on R’COUP’D via Inertia Music
Get it here: https://Inertia.lnk.to/Fink_RAS

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FINK ANNOUNCES SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM RESURGAM OUT SEPTEMBER 15 ON R’COUP’D VIA INERTIA MUSIC

Listen to lead single “Cracks Appear”

“Magnificent, sublime and seductive from track one.”
Rolling Stone Magazine on Fink’s Sunday Night Blues Club Vol. 1

“…achieves such loveliness you don’t want it to end.”
The Guardian

Resurgam – meaning “I shall rise again” – is the hotly-anticipated sixth studio album from Fink: UK-born, Berlin-based founding singer-songwriter musician Fin Greenall, alongside long-time bandmates Tim Thornton (drums, guitar) and Guy Whittaker (bass) out Friday September 15 on R’COUP’D via Inertia Music. Lead single is “Cracks Appear” which delivers a headrush of melody, with warmth and candour.

LISTEN TO “CRACKS APPEAR” HERE

Resurgam continues an acclaimed and distinctly adventurous catalogue, from the sample-splicing debut Fresh Produce (2000), through to the beautifully heady expressions of their last album, Hard Believer (2014). Greenall has also earned global props as a film music composer, songwriting collaborator (including works with John Legend and Amy Winehouse) and solo innovator, with recent side-projects spanning the electronic Horizontalism (2015) to Fink’s Sunday Night Blues Club Vol.1 (2017). Fink have never been afraid to experiment; on Resurgam, they arguably sound more fearless than ever.

“I was fresh off the Blues tour, voice thrashed, nails broken, the sweat from the last encore still on the guitar as I unpacked on the first day,” recalls Greenall. “The first week was supposed to be set up and settling in – by the end of day 4 we had already recorded the track ‘Resurgam’, the first track we nailed, on the first take, whilst essentially warming up…”

Resurgam derives its title from a Latin inscription in a 900-year-old church in Greenall’s native Cornwall. Its vital, insistent spirit pulses through the entire album, which was recorded with ground-breaking producer Flood (PJ Harvey, U2, Foals, Warpaint, The Killers) at his Assault & Battery studios in North London. It’s ten new tracks were created over two months, a relatively luxurious stretch of time compared to previous Fink albums, resulting in a collection that is both assertive and richly immersive.

On the opening title number, “Resurgam”’s lyrics are deliberately stripped-back, but they also pack a powerful punch, along with a deliciously persuasive deep funk flow. There is revelation and redemption; Fink’s positive conviction pervades even the darkest sentiments here. “Day 22” deals with sobriety and temptation, spiked with Greenall’s characteristic observant wit (“the blood, sweat, tears taste so good”). On the exquisitely bittersweet “Word To The Wise”, Greenall lingers over the final notes of a love affair, tenderly accompanied on the piano by Douglas Dare. “Not Everything Was Better In The Past” feels like a personal awakening, merging sharp reflections and poignant moods.

A heavy, resonant bass underpins the production throughout, and a range of new elements are also added to the Fink mix, from Flood’s own vintage analogue synths, to sax (played by guest musician Martin Slattery) layered into the vivid atmospheres and skittering beats of “This Isn’t A Mistake“. The rhythm guitar hook of “Godhead” brings out a West African influence, and lends a mesmerising backdrop to Greenall’s rousing vocals.

Fink’s live prowess is legendary in its own right, with the band earning rave reviews around the world, whether they’re performing in intimate mode or arena setting, or even teaming up with a renowned Amsterdam classical ensemble (a concert captured on the live album, Fink Meets The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, in 2013). For Resurgam, the core trio will expand to a live line-up with two drummers, and head out on an autumn 2017 tour of more than 60 dates, across 19 European countries, reaching more than 65,000 people.

“We tried to make a record we would listen to and go – fuck – I wish we’d written that….and every time I listen to it that’s exactly what I think,” says Greenall. “And I kinda have to pinch myself to remind myself that we did.”

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Resurgam

1. Resurgam
2. Day 22
3. Cracks Appear
4. Word To The Wise
5. Not Everything Was Better In The Past
6. The Determined Cut
7. Godhead
8. This Isn’t A Mistake
9. Covering Your Tracks
10. There’s Just Something About You

Resurgam by Fink is out Friday September 15 on R’COUP’D via Inertia Music
Get it here: https://Inertia.lnk.to/Resurgam

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