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Rowland S. Howard
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Description: | 7" on The Passport Label |
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| Format: | 7" (vinyl) | |
| Genre(s): | Post-Punk | |
| Label: | The Passport Label | |
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£4.49
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| Availability: | Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry! |
The Passport Label is proud to release the new single from legend of Australian rock, Rowland S. Howard. Pop Crimes is also the title track from his first solo album in ten years, to be released in Australia this September.Rowland S. Howard is a musician whose distinctive style and sound has resonated across the underground rock landscape for three decades. His bands have included The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, These Immortal Souls, Crime and The City Solution, Honeymoon in Red, and his collaborations have involved such dissidents as Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore, Nick Cave and the late Nikki Sudden. The Passport 7 single features the dramatic Pop Crimes as well as the magnificent duet, (I Know) A Girl Called Jonny. Joined by long-term collaborators Mick Harvey (who has played with Rowland for over 30 years), JP Shiloh (Hungry Ghosts) and producer Lindsay Gravina, Rowland S Howard is out front on guitar delivering his weary, almost journalistic vocal, dispassionately sitting amidst the sweaty panic of the music, adding to the ill ease. The band lurch in to Pop Crimes as if dragging a rain soaked body across a muddy field. The ghosts of Lee Hazlewood, Snatch, Sergio Leone, The Shangri-Las and nameless guys from a never known chain gang watch on. Within the first few breaths, Howard references Stalin, Calvary and genocide, whilst razoring guitar lines, the current crop of post-punk revisionists could only fantasise about. (I Know) A Girl Called Jonny sees Jonnine Standish from HTRK sidle up to the microphone for a duet that will melt even the coldest of hearts. It s a glorious missing link between the New York girl group sound and the street smarts of Suicide. 200 copies for sale in UK.
