Crime & the City Solution have a shared the latest track from their forthcoming album, the killer. Listen to the dizzying electronic swirl of ‘Brave Hearted Woman’ here: https://youtu.be/HLF9h995yX8

‘Brave Hearted Woman is a celebration”, explains founding member Simon Bonney. ‘It is to sit in stillness like a tree, to revel in her powerful, energetic force without want to control – to surrender into that heavenly unknown.”

the killer - Crime & the City’s sixth studio album, and their first in over a decade - is set for release via Mute on vinyl, CD and download on 20 October 2023 and will be followed by a UK and European tour that kicks off in November and includes three UK dates – London, Bristol and Colchester

The album began life as a PhD application that came to life when the band’s core members, Simon Bonney and Bronwyn Adams, found themselves stuck in their native Australia under one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, their nomadic lifestyle put on pause by the pandemic. “Naturally”, says Simon, “I sat and I pieced together a PhD application about decision making in Afghanistan in the late 80s. But as it turned out, it was actually more of a record than it was a PhD.”

JOSHUA MURPHY - AUS
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Joshua Murphy is an ex-pat Australian musician, now living in Berlin and his debut solo EP, Lowlands was released in December of 2022, on the aufnahme + wiedergabe label. Lowlands is a slice of Australiana story telling in the bleak and often unforgiving outback, where loneliness, distance, scorching heat and dead cold can easily affect the human psyche. It follows in the gritty southern gothic vein of Nick Cave, where good and evil court in the dust and sweat of yesteryear’s memories, which are long in small country towns.

Murphy echoes a tradition of musicians where there is nothing that quite sounds like the Aussie post-punk scene from Cave, or the laconic late Roland S Howard, or the hauntingly beautiful songs of the late David McComb of The Triffids. We spoke to Murphy about the EP, what lead to the writing and was involved in the recording. I will just say that as an Australian, this land leaves an indelible mark under your skin.