Crime & the City Solution - The Bride Ship [White coloured vinyl]

Format: LP, Coloured Vinyl
Catalogue No.: LSTUMM65
Barcode: 5400863085766
Release Date: 27 Jan 2023
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 Crime & the City Solution’s fourth studio album, ‘The Bride Ship’, is reissued on white vinyl. This is set to be released alongside ‘Shine’ and ‘Paradise Discotheque’.
 A band out of time, Crime and 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 Seed’s
Mick Harvey on drums recorded three studio albums in quick succession.
 Originally released in 1989, ‘The Bride Ship’ was a creative turn for Crime and the City Solution. 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.
 Unavailable on vinyl since 1994. 

Tracklisting
The Shadow Of No Man
The Greater Head
Stone
The Dangling Man
Keepsake
The Bride Ship
Free World
New World