The Bride Ship

The Bride Ship
Studio album by Crime & the City Solution
Released	April 17, 1989 (1989-04-17)
Recorded	June – August 1988 (1988-08)
Studio	Hansa Tonstudio (Berlin, DE)
Genre	Post-punk
Length	46:07
Label	Mute
Producer	Gareth Jones
Crime & the City Solution chronology
Shine (1988) The Bride Ship (1989) Paradise Discotheque (1990)

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The Bride Ship is the third studio album by Crime & the City Solution, released on July 11, 1989 through Mute Records.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Bonney, except where noted; all music is composed by Crime & the City Solution

No.	Title	Lyrics	Length
1.	"The Shadow of No Man"		5:26
2.	"The Greater Head"	Adams, Bonney	4:22
3.	"Stone"		4:12
4.	"The Dangling Man"		4:30
5.	"Keepsake"		4:40
6.	"The Bride Ship"		6:22
7.	"Free World"		3:11
8.	"New World"	Adams	3:29
9.	"Three/Four"		3:16
10.	"The Bride Ship"		6:24

Personnel

Crime & the City Solution

• Bronwyn Adams – violin
• Simon Bonney – vocals
• Chrislo Haas – guitar, synthesizer
• Alexander Hacke – guitar
• Mick Harvey – drums, piano
• Thomas Stern – bass guitar

Production and additional personnel

• Bleddyn Butcher – photography
• Crime & the City Solution – mixing
• Ralph Droge – trombone
• Peter Gruchot – photography
• David Heilmann – engineering
• Gareth Jones – production, mixing
• Miles Standish – photography
• Victor Van Vugt – engineering, mixing

External links

• The Bride Ship at Discogs (list of releases)