A vital presence on Australia’s post-punk scene, Rowland S. Howard created his own emotionally intense sonic language, first with Young Charlatans, then alongside Nick Cave and Mick Harvey in The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party, and, after they disbanded 1983, with These Immortal Souls and Crime & the City Solution.
Pop Crimes is a 2009 solo album by Australian musician Rowland S. Howard. The album was released on 16 October 2009.
Howard passed away on December 30, 2009, from liver cancer, only a few months after the release of Pop Crimes. The album, recorded with Mick Harvey and JP Shilo, also features Brian Hooper and on ‘(I Know) A Girl Called Jonny’, the collaboration with Jonnine Standish and Sean Stewart (HTRK)
A1. (I Know ) A Girl Called Jonny
A2. Shut Me Down
A3. Life's What You Make It
A4. Pop Crimes
B1. Nothin'
B2. Wayward Man
B3. Avé Maria
B4. The Golden Age Of Bloodshed
