Pop Crimes

Pop Crimes
Studio album by Rowland S. Howard
Released	16 October 2009
Recorded	Summer 2008 – Winter 2009 Birdland Studios, Melbourne
Genre	Alt-rock, post-punk, punk blues
Length	38:19
Label	Liberation
Producer	Lindsay Gravina
Rowland S. Howard chronology
Teenage Snuff Film (1999) Pop Crimes (2009)

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]

Track listing

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"

All songs written by Rowland S. Howard except where otherwise noted

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)
• 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.