“Like most fans too young, square, or both to have frequented German punk clubs during the 1980s, I discovered Crime & the City Solution through Wim Wenders’ film Wings of Desire. While Nick Cave’s musical cameo has achieved more fame, the band’s appearance is transfixing: Onstage, in some sordid nightclub, Crime & the City Solution—led by frontman Simon Bonney—gyrates and slithers while performing”
