Pop Crimes

Pop Crimes
Front cover of the Pop Crimes CD
Studio album by
Released16 October 2009 (2009-10-16)
RecordedSummer 2008 – Winter 2009
StudioBirdland Studios, Melbourne
Length38:19
LabelLiberation (Australia)
Fat Possum (US)
ProducerLindsay Gravina
Rowland S. Howard chronology
Teenage Snuff Film
(1999)
Pop Crimes
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
PopMatters9/10[1]
AllMusic[2]
NME[3]
Record Collector[4]

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 2+12 months before his death from liver cancer on 30 December.[5][6] Pop Crimes was released in the United States by Fat Possum Records in August 2014.[7] 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.[8]

  1. ^ Schurr, Maria (21 October 2014). "Rowland S Howard: Pop Crimes". PopMatters. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  2. ^ Jureck, Thom (2010). "Pop Crimes – Rowland S. Howard". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  3. ^ Mackay, Emily (11 June 2010). "Album Review: Rowland S Howard – 'Pop Crimes' (Infectious)". NME. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  4. ^ Needs, Kris (30 May 2010). "Pop Crimes – Rowland S Howard". Record Collector. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  5. ^ Rowland S Howard: Pop Crimes, Mess+Noise, 16 October 2012.
  6. ^ Rowland S Howard, TimeOut Sydney, October 2009.
  7. ^ New Release: Rowland S. Howard "Pop Crimes", Fat Possum Records, 5 August 2014.
  8. ^ Rowland S. Howard – Remastered reissues of Teenage Snuff Film and Pop Crimes, Mute Records.