Crime & the City Solution
Crime & the City Solution recently returned after a 10-year hiatus to release their sixth studio album, the killer, on Mute. Inspired by Bonney’s work delivering aid programmes, it looks at the ways conflict manifests in everyday life, and features tracks such as ‘Rivers of Blood’, ‘Brave Hearted Woman’, ‘Peace in my Time’, and Witness. Featuring a lineup of Simon Bonney, Bronwyn Adams, Frederic Lyenn Jacques, Chris Hughes, Donald Baldie, Georgio Valentino, and Joshua Murphy. the killer was recorded at produced in Berlin at Klangbild Studios by Martin J. Fiedler.
Formed in Sydney by Simon Bonney at the age of 16, Crime & the City Solution’s early performances from 1977-1979 had a big impact on key figures of the early Melbourne art-punk/post-punk scene. In 1984, Bad Seed Mick Harvey shipped Bonney to England to form the London-based Crime with their friend, the brilliant and ever-influential ex-Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S Howard, with his brother Harry Howard on bass and Epic Soundtracks on drums.
The first Berlin incarnation, which followed, is represented by three albums recently reissued on Mute – Shine (1988), The Bride Ship (1989) and Paradise Discotheque(1990), and the live album, The Adversary. Another 20 years would pass before the band, then based in Detroit, would return with their fifth studio album, American Twilight: “as much an elegy to the American Dream that’s turned into a global nightmare as it is a damn fine rock & roll album”
Territory: Australia