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Room of Lights

2.2M streams

2,234,536

The Adversary (Live)

546K streams

546,031

Paradise Discotheque

373.2K streams

373,220

Shine

337.1K streams

337,060

American Twilight

287.7K streams

287,724

The Bride Ship

193.7K streams

193,717

the killer

120.2K streams

120,160

People Are Strange

11.4K streams

11,388

An Introduction To

10.3K streams

10,282

Goddess

4.2K streams

4,213

Biography

Formed in Sydney by a 16-year-old Simon Bonney, Crime & the City Solution, from its art-punk beginnings through its post-rock present, has created unique and influential soundscapes and stories; cinematic and lyrical, each album a world unto itself, an outsider’s meditation on location and time. Constantly on the move, with time in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Berlin, and Detroit, and regularly reinventing itself, the band toured Europe, the UK and US extensively and released five studio albums, Room of Lights (1986), Shine (1987), The Bride Ship (1989), Paradise Discotheque (1990), American Twilight (2013). In 1987 it appeared in Wim Wenders’ cinematic masterpiece Wings of Desire (1987). In 2022, after a long hiatus the road would lead back to Berlin with Simon Bonney and Bronwyn Adams being joined by Frederic Lyenn, Donald Baldie, Georgio Valentino, Chris Hughes, and Joshua Murphy. After a successful European tour the band recorded a new album, the killer, with producer, Martin J. Fiedler. With the album’s release in October the band heads off on a European and UK tour starting in November, with dates in North America to be announced.