LP - Limited Edition White Vinyl Reissue. Only 1,000 copies pressed in this edition worldwide. Unavailable on vinyl since 1994.
Crime + The City Solution’s fourth studio album The Bride Ship reissued on white vinyl. This is set to be released alongside Shine and Paradise Discotheque on 27th January, 2023.
A band out of time, Crime + the City Solution were perennial outsiders who could not rest in their native Australia, and instead found inspiration in the colder climes of London and Berlin. Their mesmeric, expressive music evolved through many incarnations and a great deal of adversity. The first incarnation of the band appeared in 1977/78, in the midst of Australia’s nascent punk scene and re-grouped in London in 1984. The later line-up of singer Simon Bonney, Einstürzende Neubauten’s guitarist Alexander Hacke, DAF’s synth player Chrislo Haas, jazz bassist Thomas Stern, violinist Bronwyn Adams and Bad Seeds' Mick Harvey on drums recorded 3 studio albums in quick succession.
Originally released in 1989, The Bride Ship was a creative turn for Crime. Using the sea as the ultimate metaphor for freedom, the album highlighted Bonney’s skill as a lyricist and sense of melody. The crashing guitars and drums propelled a sprawling narrative which concerned itself increasingly with the universal as opposed to the personal.
Limited edition white vinyl, 1000 available worldwide.
Tracklist:
A1. The Shadow Of No Man
A2. The Greater Head
A3. Stone
A4. The Dangling Man
B1. Keepsake
B2. The Bride Ship
B3. Free World
B4. New World