Pop Crimes

{{Infobox album

| name = Pop Crimes

| type = studio

| artist = Rowland S. Howard

| cover = RSH-PopCrimes.jpg

| alt = Front cover of the Pop Crimes CD

| released = {{Start date|2009|10|16|df=y}}

| recorded = Summer 2008 – Winter 2009

| venue =

| studio = Birdland Studios, Melbourne

| genre =

| length = {{Duration|m=38|s=19}}

| label = Liberation (Australia)
Fat Possum (US)

| producer = Lindsay Gravina

| prev_title = Teenage Snuff Film

| prev_year = 1999

| next_title =

| next_year =

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = PopMatters

| rev1score = 9/10{{cite news |last1=Schurr |first1=Maria |title=Rowland S Howard: Pop Crimes|url=https://www.popmatters.com/186884-rowland-s-howard-pop-crimes-2495603156.html |access-date=September 19, 2021 |work=PopMatters |date= October 21, 2014}}

| rev2 = AllMusic

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news |last1=Jureck |first1=Thom|title= Pop Crimes – Rowland S. Howard |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/pop-crimes-mw0001997434?1632083910560 |access-date=September 19, 2021 |work=AllMusic |date= 2010}}

| rev3 = NME

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news |last1=Mackay |first1=Emily |title=Album Review: Rowland S Howard – 'Pop Crimes' (Infectious)|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-rowland-s-howard-11365-308016|access-date=September 19, 2021 |work=NME |date=June 11, 2010}}

| rev4 = Record Collector

| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last=Needs|first=Kris|title=Pop Crimes – Rowland S Howard|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/album/pop-crimes|work=Record Collector|access-date=September 19, 2021|date=May 30, 2010}}

| noprose = yes}}

Pop Crimes is the second solo album by Australian musician Rowland S. Howard, released on 16 October 2009. The album was released ten years after Howard's previous solo album Teenage Snuff Film, and {{frac|2|1|2}} months before his death from liver cancer on 30 December.[http://www.messandnoise.com/releases/2000449 Rowland S Howard: Pop Crimes], Mess+Noise, 16 October 2012.[http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/music/features/9589/rowland-s-howard Rowland S Howard], TimeOut Sydney, October 2009. Pop Crimes was released in the United States by Fat Possum Records in August 2014.[http://www.fatpossum.com/news/419 New Release: Rowland S. Howard "Pop Crimes"], Fat Possum Records, 5 August 2014. 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.[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], Mute Records.

Track listing

{{Track listing

| headline =

| all_songs = Rowland S. Howard; except where indicated

| title1 = (I Know) A Girl Called Jonny

| writer1 = {{hlist|Howard|Jonnine Standish}}

| length1 = 3:51

| title2 = Shut Me Down

| length2 = 4:20

| title3 = Life's What You Make It

| writer3 = {{hlist|Tim Friese-Greene|Mark Hollis}}

| length3 = 6:42

| title4 = Pop Crimes

| writer4 = {{hlist|Howard|Brian Hooper}}

| length4 = 7:23

| title5 = Nothin

| writer5 = {{hlist|Townes van Zandt}}

| length5 = 3:51

| title6 = Wayward Man

| length6 = 3:42

| title7 = Ave Maria

| length7 = 4:01

| title8 = The Golden Age of Bloodshed

| length8 = 4:29

| total_length = 38:23

| all_writing = Rowland S. Howard, except where noted.

}}

Personnel

Rowland S. Howard – vocals and guitar
Mick Harvey – drums and organ
J.P. Shilo – guitar, violin, "general strangeness" and bass guitar (except track 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

Category:2009 albums

Category:Rowland S. Howard albums

Category:Fat Possum Records albums