CRIME & THE CITY SOLUTION
the killer
Boomkat Product Review:
First album in a decade by Simon Bonney & co’s legendary Aussie band, reprising a classic brand of widescreen gloom and melodrama they’ve specialised in since 1977, across time and continents
Often noted in the same breath as Nick Cave and The Birthday Party, with whom their early line-up shared members, Crime & the City Solution hold a special place in hard-bitten rock hearts for their timeless blend of rustic, folk-tinged rock orchestrations and, no doubt, the grizzly tone of Simon Bonney’s vocals. On ‘the killer’, their first album since 2013’s American Twilight’ (whose predecessor ‘Paradise Discotheque’ throws even farther back to 1990), Bonney effectively presents his pandemic-borne PhD thesis on “decision making in Afghanistan in the late ‘80s” in album form. Song to song he transmutes his PhD research, and inspiration from delivering aid programmes in the Indo-Pacific region and Ukraine, as well as recollections of “dead bodies in my dreams”, into a brooding reflection on war and human-made horror that resonates with the times.
Recording in Berlin for the 2nd time (where their classic run of ‘80s albums with conceived), and flanked by longtime spar Bronwyn Adams, plus Frederic Lyenn (Piano, Bass, Synth), Donald Baldie (Guitar), Georgio Valentino (Synth, Guitar), Chris Hughes (Drums, Percussion) and Joshua Murphy (Piano, Guitar), they worked with a producer, Martin J. Fielder, for the first time, to bring their stories to life in epic forms. Also gilded with Fielder’ssynth and Mellotron, the 7-part LP forms a concise and direct example of their patented class in effect.
Saddling up with the autumnal string arrangements and close harmonies of ‘Rivers of Blood’ they impart stales of sorrow and anguish with a rarified elegance that retains their rock rawness. It’s there in the sore riffs of ’River of God’ recalling Dylan Carlson’s desert plangency, and delivered with a kosmiche thrust in the swelling synths that underline ‘Brave Hearted Woman’, while they stretch out into panoramic scenes with Bonney’s coarse vox oscillating almost Gil Scott-Heron proto-rap and full voice anguish, with the funereal ‘Peace in my Time’ bringing the heavy curtain on their classically schooled treatise on humanity’s dark side.
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Boomkat Product Review:
First album in a decade by Simon Bonney & co’s legendary Aussie band, reprising a classic brand of widescreen gloom and melodrama they’ve specialised in since 1977, across time and continents
Often noted in the same breath as Nick Cave and The Birthday Party, with whom their early line-up shared members, Crime & the City Solution hold a special place in hard-bitten rock hearts for their timeless blend of rustic, folk-tinged rock orchestrations and, no doubt, the grizzly tone of Simon Bonney’s vocals. On ‘the killer’, their first album since 2013’s American Twilight’ (whose predecessor ‘Paradise Discotheque’ throws even farther back to 1990), Bonney effectively presents his pandemic-borne PhD thesis on “decision making in Afghanistan in the late ‘80s” in album form. Song to song he transmutes his PhD research, and inspiration from delivering aid programmes in the Indo-Pacific region and Ukraine, as well as recollections of “dead bodies in my dreams”, into a brooding reflection on war and human-made horror that resonates with the times.
Recording in Berlin for the 2nd time (where their classic run of ‘80s albums with conceived), and flanked by longtime spar Bronwyn Adams, plus Frederic Lyenn (Piano, Bass, Synth), Donald Baldie (Guitar), Georgio Valentino (Synth, Guitar), Chris Hughes (Drums, Percussion) and Joshua Murphy (Piano, Guitar), they worked with a producer, Martin J. Fielder, for the first time, to bring their stories to life in epic forms. Also gilded with Fielder’ssynth and Mellotron, the 7-part LP forms a concise and direct example of their patented class in effect.
Saddling up with the autumnal string arrangements and close harmonies of ‘Rivers of Blood’ they impart stales of sorrow and anguish with a rarified elegance that retains their rock rawness. It’s there in the sore riffs of ’River of God’ recalling Dylan Carlson’s desert plangency, and delivered with a kosmiche thrust in the swelling synths that underline ‘Brave Hearted Woman’, while they stretch out into panoramic scenes with Bonney’s coarse vox oscillating almost Gil Scott-Heron proto-rap and full voice anguish, with the funereal ‘Peace in my Time’ bringing the heavy curtain on their classically schooled treatise on humanity’s dark side.
Boomkat Product Review:
First album in a decade by Simon Bonney & co’s legendary Aussie band, reprising a classic brand of widescreen gloom and melodrama they’ve specialised in since 1977, across time and continents
Often noted in the same breath as Nick Cave and The Birthday Party, with whom their early line-up shared members, Crime & the City Solution hold a special place in hard-bitten rock hearts for their timeless blend of rustic, folk-tinged rock orchestrations and, no doubt, the grizzly tone of Simon Bonney’s vocals. On ‘the killer’, their first album since 2013’s American Twilight’ (whose predecessor ‘Paradise Discotheque’ throws even farther back to 1990), Bonney effectively presents his pandemic-borne PhD thesis on “decision making in Afghanistan in the late ‘80s” in album form. Song to song he transmutes his PhD research, and inspiration from delivering aid programmes in the Indo-Pacific region and Ukraine, as well as recollections of “dead bodies in my dreams”, into a brooding reflection on war and human-made horror that resonates with the times.
Recording in Berlin for the 2nd time (where their classic run of ‘80s albums with conceived), and flanked by longtime spar Bronwyn Adams, plus Frederic Lyenn (Piano, Bass, Synth), Donald Baldie (Guitar), Georgio Valentino (Synth, Guitar), Chris Hughes (Drums, Percussion) and Joshua Murphy (Piano, Guitar), they worked with a producer, Martin J. Fielder, for the first time, to bring their stories to life in epic forms. Also gilded with Fielder’ssynth and Mellotron, the 7-part LP forms a concise and direct example of their patented class in effect.
Saddling up with the autumnal string arrangements and close harmonies of ‘Rivers of Blood’ they impart stales of sorrow and anguish with a rarified elegance that retains their rock rawness. It’s there in the sore riffs of ’River of God’ recalling Dylan Carlson’s desert plangency, and delivered with a kosmiche thrust in the swelling synths that underline ‘Brave Hearted Woman’, while they stretch out into panoramic scenes with Bonney’s coarse vox oscillating almost Gil Scott-Heron proto-rap and full voice anguish, with the funereal ‘Peace in my Time’ bringing the heavy curtain on their classically schooled treatise on humanity’s dark side.
Boomkat Product Review:
First album in a decade by Simon Bonney & co’s legendary Aussie band, reprising a classic brand of widescreen gloom and melodrama they’ve specialised in since 1977, across time and continents
Often noted in the same breath as Nick Cave and The Birthday Party, with whom their early line-up shared members, Crime & the City Solution hold a special place in hard-bitten rock hearts for their timeless blend of rustic, folk-tinged rock orchestrations and, no doubt, the grizzly tone of Simon Bonney’s vocals. On ‘the killer’, their first album since 2013’s American Twilight’ (whose predecessor ‘Paradise Discotheque’ throws even farther back to 1990), Bonney effectively presents his pandemic-borne PhD thesis on “decision making in Afghanistan in the late ‘80s” in album form. Song to song he transmutes his PhD research, and inspiration from delivering aid programmes in the Indo-Pacific region and Ukraine, as well as recollections of “dead bodies in my dreams”, into a brooding reflection on war and human-made horror that resonates with the times.
Recording in Berlin for the 2nd time (where their classic run of ‘80s albums with conceived), and flanked by longtime spar Bronwyn Adams, plus Frederic Lyenn (Piano, Bass, Synth), Donald Baldie (Guitar), Georgio Valentino (Synth, Guitar), Chris Hughes (Drums, Percussion) and Joshua Murphy (Piano, Guitar), they worked with a producer, Martin J. Fielder, for the first time, to bring their stories to life in epic forms. Also gilded with Fielder’ssynth and Mellotron, the 7-part LP forms a concise and direct example of their patented class in effect.
Saddling up with the autumnal string arrangements and close harmonies of ‘Rivers of Blood’ they impart stales of sorrow and anguish with a rarified elegance that retains their rock rawness. It’s there in the sore riffs of ’River of God’ recalling Dylan Carlson’s desert plangency, and delivered with a kosmiche thrust in the swelling synths that underline ‘Brave Hearted Woman’, while they stretch out into panoramic scenes with Bonney’s coarse vox oscillating almost Gil Scott-Heron proto-rap and full voice anguish, with the funereal ‘Peace in my Time’ bringing the heavy curtain on their classically schooled treatise on humanity’s dark side.
Black LP.
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Boomkat Product Review:
First album in a decade by Simon Bonney & co’s legendary Aussie band, reprising a classic brand of widescreen gloom and melodrama they’ve specialised in since 1977, across time and continents
Often noted in the same breath as Nick Cave and The Birthday Party, with whom their early line-up shared members, Crime & the City Solution hold a special place in hard-bitten rock hearts for their timeless blend of rustic, folk-tinged rock orchestrations and, no doubt, the grizzly tone of Simon Bonney’s vocals. On ‘the killer’, their first album since 2013’s American Twilight’ (whose predecessor ‘Paradise Discotheque’ throws even farther back to 1990), Bonney effectively presents his pandemic-borne PhD thesis on “decision making in Afghanistan in the late ‘80s” in album form. Song to song he transmutes his PhD research, and inspiration from delivering aid programmes in the Indo-Pacific region and Ukraine, as well as recollections of “dead bodies in my dreams”, into a brooding reflection on war and human-made horror that resonates with the times.
Recording in Berlin for the 2nd time (where their classic run of ‘80s albums with conceived), and flanked by longtime spar Bronwyn Adams, plus Frederic Lyenn (Piano, Bass, Synth), Donald Baldie (Guitar), Georgio Valentino (Synth, Guitar), Chris Hughes (Drums, Percussion) and Joshua Murphy (Piano, Guitar), they worked with a producer, Martin J. Fielder, for the first time, to bring their stories to life in epic forms. Also gilded with Fielder’ssynth and Mellotron, the 7-part LP forms a concise and direct example of their patented class in effect.
Saddling up with the autumnal string arrangements and close harmonies of ‘Rivers of Blood’ they impart stales of sorrow and anguish with a rarified elegance that retains their rock rawness. It’s there in the sore riffs of ’River of God’ recalling Dylan Carlson’s desert plangency, and delivered with a kosmiche thrust in the swelling synths that underline ‘Brave Hearted Woman’, while they stretch out into panoramic scenes with Bonney’s coarse vox oscillating almost Gil Scott-Heron proto-rap and full voice anguish, with the funereal ‘Peace in my Time’ bringing the heavy curtain on their classically schooled treatise on humanity’s dark side.
CD in card pack with poster fold booklet.
Available To Order (Estimated Shipping between 7-14 Working Days)
This item is to the best of our knowledge available to us from the supplier and should ship to you within the time-frame indicated. If there are any unforeseen issues with availability we will notify you immediately
Boomkat Product Review:
First album in a decade by Simon Bonney & co’s legendary Aussie band, reprising a classic brand of widescreen gloom and melodrama they’ve specialised in since 1977, across time and continents
Often noted in the same breath as Nick Cave and The Birthday Party, with whom their early line-up shared members, Crime & the City Solution hold a special place in hard-bitten rock hearts for their timeless blend of rustic, folk-tinged rock orchestrations and, no doubt, the grizzly tone of Simon Bonney’s vocals. On ‘the killer’, their first album since 2013’s American Twilight’ (whose predecessor ‘Paradise Discotheque’ throws even farther back to 1990), Bonney effectively presents his pandemic-borne PhD thesis on “decision making in Afghanistan in the late ‘80s” in album form. Song to song he transmutes his PhD research, and inspiration from delivering aid programmes in the Indo-Pacific region and Ukraine, as well as recollections of “dead bodies in my dreams”, into a brooding reflection on war and human-made horror that resonates with the times.
Recording in Berlin for the 2nd time (where their classic run of ‘80s albums with conceived), and flanked by longtime spar Bronwyn Adams, plus Frederic Lyenn (Piano, Bass, Synth), Donald Baldie (Guitar), Georgio Valentino (Synth, Guitar), Chris Hughes (Drums, Percussion) and Joshua Murphy (Piano, Guitar), they worked with a producer, Martin J. Fielder, for the first time, to bring their stories to life in epic forms. Also gilded with Fielder’ssynth and Mellotron, the 7-part LP forms a concise and direct example of their patented class in effect.
Saddling up with the autumnal string arrangements and close harmonies of ‘Rivers of Blood’ they impart stales of sorrow and anguish with a rarified elegance that retains their rock rawness. It’s there in the sore riffs of ’River of God’ recalling Dylan Carlson’s desert plangency, and delivered with a kosmiche thrust in the swelling synths that underline ‘Brave Hearted Woman’, while they stretch out into panoramic scenes with Bonney’s coarse vox oscillating almost Gil Scott-Heron proto-rap and full voice anguish, with the funereal ‘Peace in my Time’ bringing the heavy curtain on their classically schooled treatise on humanity’s dark side.
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