Australian singer and songwriter Simon Bonney is possessed of a deep, sonorous baritone instrument that suggests its place in a lineage from Johnny Cash and Jim Morrison to fellow Australian Nick Cave. It is at once urgent and mournful, pastoral and prophetic. During the 1980s and early '90s, Bonney was the lead singer of Crime & the City Solution (that featured several ex-members of the Birthday Party), and an important figure on Australia's -- and later Berlin's -- post-punk scenes. The band appeared in Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire in a live club performance that reveal...