Glued together by singer/songwriter Simon Bonney, Crime & the City Solution is a post punk band from Australia. Since its formation in 1977, the band has taken many forms with Bonney as its only consistent member. With a revolving lineup the band waited to release its debut album Room of Lights, until 1986. For Crime & the City Solution's follow-up album Bonney, who lived in Berlin at the time, recruited a number of local musicians to enter the studio with him. The result was Shrine, a baroque effort with ornate instrumentation and an art punk vibe. Crime & the City Solution released its fifth studio album in 2012, its first effort since 1990's Paradise Discotheque.
