With The Perfect Crime there’s a real sense among the band that they might just have pulled off the most definitive musical statement in the bands unparalleled four-decade career. The first half of the album is dominated by a set of pulsating, menacing rockers, at once distinctly Cold Chisel, and yet for the most part quite unlike anything theyve previously committed to tape.

“Its probably the most rock & roll album that weve done,” said primary songwriter Don Walker. Its historically been one of the bugbears that everyone brings in ballads or mid-paced songs, adds Don, but our producer Kevin Shirley was relentlessly looking for stuff that was up-tempo.” Lead singer Jimmy Barnes agrees: We wanted to do a rock record and Kevin was pushing for that from day one.

The second half of The Perfect Crime then pushes all kinds of boundaries, ranging across slow-motion Soul Train-style disco (yes, disco!), 50s Latino cabaret, smatterings of blues and jazz…and then, for the first time ever, strings (along with soulful female backing vocals) find their way onto a Cold Chisel song, on the albums stone-cold classic lead-out single, Lost.