Pop Crimes

Pop Crimes is a 2009 solo album by Australian musician Rowland S. Howard. The album was released on 16 October 2009, ten years after Howard's previous solo album Teenage Snuff Film,[1] and two-and-a-half months before his death from liver cancer on 30 December.[2] The album was released in the United States by Fat Possum Records in August 2014.[3] Remastered versions of both Howard's solo albums were released by Mute Records in Europe, Fat Possum in America and Bloodlines in Australia on 27 March 2020.[4]

Pop Crimes
Studio album by
Rowland S. Howard
Released16 October 2009 (2009-10-16)
RecordedSummer 2008 – Winter 2009
StudioBirdland Studios, Melbourne
Length38:19
LabelLiberation (Australia)
Fat Possum (USA)
ProducerLindsay Gravina
Rowland S. Howard chronology
Teenage Snuff Film
(1999)		 Pop Crimes
(2009)

Track listing

All songs composed by Rowland S. Howard; except where indicated

  1. "(I Know) A Girl Called Jonny" (lyrics by Howard, Jonnine Standish)
  2. "Shut Me Down"
  3. "Life's What You Make It" (Tim Friese-Greene, Mark Hollis)
  4. "Pop Crimes" (music by Howard, Brian Hooper)
  5. "Nothin'" (Townes van Zandt)
  6. "Wayward Man"
  7. "Ave Maria"
  8. "The Golden Age of Bloodshed"

Personnel
  • Rowland S. Howard – vocals and guitar
  • Mick Harvey – drums and organ
  • J.P. Shilo – guitar, violin, "general strangeness" and bass guitar (except 1,5,8)

with:

Technical
  • Ken Taylor - artwork, design
  • Karl Scullin - cover photography

References
  1. Rowland S Howard: Pop Crimes, Mess+Noise, 16 October 2012.
  2. Rowland S Howard, TimeOut Sydney, October 2009.
  3. New Release: Rowland S. Howard "Pop Crimes", Fat Possum Records, 5 August 2014.
  4. Rowland S. Howard – Remastered reissues of Teenage Snuff Film and Pop Crimes, Mute Records.


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