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
Released	16 October 2009 (2009-10-16)
Recorded	Summer 2008 – Winter 2009
Studio	Birdland Studios, Melbourne
Length	38:19
Label	Liberation (Australia) Fat Possum (USA)
Producer	Lindsay 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 (John Brooks) – guitar, violin, "general strangeness" and bass guitar (except 1,5,8)

with:

• Brian Hooper – bass guitar (6,8)
• Sean Stewart – bass guitar (1)
• Jonnine Standish – vocals (1)

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.