Pop Crimes Explained

Pop Crimes
Type:	studio
Artist:	Rowland S. Howard
Cover:	RSH-PopCrimes.jpg
Alt:	Front cover of the Pop Crimes CD
Recorded:	Summer 2008 – Winter 2009
Studio:	Birdland Studios, Melbourne
Label:	Liberation (Australia) Fat Possum (US)
Producer:	Lindsay Gravina
Prev Title:	Teenage Snuff Film
Prev Year:	1999

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 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]

Track listing

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

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:

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

Technical

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.messandnoise.com/releases/2000449 Rowland S Howard: Pop Crimes
2. http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/music/features/9589/rowland-s-howard Rowland S Howard
3. http://www.fatpossum.com/news/419 New Release: Rowland S. Howard "Pop Crimes"
4. http://mute.com/mute/rowland-s-howard-remastered-reissues-of-teenage-snuff-film-and-pop-crimes Rowland S. Howard – Remastered reissues of Teenage Snuff Film and Pop Crimes