Pop Crimes

by Rowland S. Howard

Pop Crimes cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 October 2009
  • Label: Liberation
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 38:23
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released just weeks before his death, 'Pop Crimes' is the final masterpiece from the Birthday Party guitarist. The album is filled with jagged, feedback-drenched guitars and Howard's weary, gothic croon. It is a haunting, elegant farewell from a post-punk legend.

Genres

Descriptors: literate, crooning, stripped-down, funereal, crime, male-vocals, atmospheric, minimal, theatrical, distorted

Tracklist

  1. (I Know) A Girl Called Jonny (3:51)
  2. Shut Me Down (4:21)
  3. Life's What You Make It (6:43)
  4. Pop Crimes (7:23)
  5. Nothin' (3:51)
  6. Wayward Man (3:43)
  7. Av茅 Maria (4:00)
  8. The Golden Age Of Bloodshed (4:31)

Credits

  • Ken Taylor - artwork, design
  • J.P. Shilo - bass, Guitar, Violin, Bass
  • Rowland S. Howard - directed by, Guitar, Lead Vocals Vocal
  • Mick Harvey - drums, organ, Drums (drum Set), Organ
  • Genevieve McGuckin - illustration
  • Karl Scullin - photography by [cover photography & photos of rowland by]
  • Richard Sharman - photography by [photo of j.p. shilo & mick harvey by]
  • Ren Rox - photography by [photo of jonnine standish by]
  • Lindsay Gravina - producer, Producer
  • Rob Long - recorded by [assisted by], Assistant Engineer
  • Sean Stewart - Bass
  • Jonnine Standish - Guest Vocal
  • Brian Hooper - Bass

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