There wasn't much personal satisfaction for me in that situation."īut listening to his misery laid so bare, it's hard to imagine what satisfaction he'll gain on this autumn's tour. "I've got good memories of that time," says Fink, "but there's this WH Auden quote I heard the other day: 'Fame can make a writer vain, but it doesn't make him proud.' I think that's true. Fink also produced Marling's debut album, the Mercury-nominated Alas, I Cannot Swim. Their 2008 debut album, Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down, sold more than 100,000 copies.
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NATW's top 10 single "5 Years Time", with its "fun, fun, fun, sun, sun, sun" refrain, was inescapable on car adverts, radio and TV shows. This time last year, Fink's band (comprising his older brother Doug on drums, violinist Tom "Fiddle" Hobden and Matt "Urby Whale" Owens on bass, all old friends who grew up in Twickenham) were enjoying great commercial success. "Stranger" finds him in bed with one, "regretfully lying naked, I reflect on what I've done, her leg still forced in between mine sticking to my skin". Violins and doomy guitars have replaced the nu-folk ukuleles and glockenspiels to great, if gloomy, effect and the lyrics are bleak but brilliant: "Now my heart's been broken there's nothing you can do, I'm impenetrable to pain/ You can't break my broken heart," he explains on "My Broken Heart". It would be unbearable if it wasn't so accomplished.
The pair had worked, toured and lived together and every facet of misery of their partnership's demise is here: initial despair, the epiphany that life can go on and the fumbling struggle for recovery through regretted one-night stands and false bravado. Co-produced by Fink and Emery Dobyns, best known for his work with Patti Smith and Antony and the Johnsons, it's a concept album charting the singer's emotional meltdown after his relationship with singer Laura Marling ended last year. But you won't be surprised by his response once you've heard their album The First Days of Spring.
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