DAMAGED: Crime & The City Solution "The Bride Ship" LP (White Vinyl)

Damaged cover. Could include seam splits, bent corners etc. Still sealed. Vinyl presumed mint. Mute is excited to announce the reissue of Crime & the City Solution’s third studio album The Bride Ship on limited edition white vinyl and CD. Restored from the original masters and re- cut in 2022, the vinyl will be limited to 1,000 copies worldwide. 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. After the departure of the Rowland brothers and Epic Soundtracks, the line-up settled upon the making of Shine with singer Simon Bonney, Einstürzende Neubauten’s guitarist Alexander Hacke, DAF’s synth player Chrislo Haa