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Rowland S Howard

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It is a tragic irony that Rowland S. Howard’s finest solo work was released a mere two months before his untimely death from liver cancer — he was waiting for a transplant. Howard wasn’t exactly prolific after the Birthday Party split in the ’80s. He worked a lot in that decade as a founding member of Crime & the City Solution fronted by Simon Bonney, and he collaborated with a host of artists including Nikki Sudden, Genevieve McGuckin, Barry Adamson, Jeremy Gluck and, most famously, Lydia Lunch. He also formed These Immortal Souls, who released a couple of excellent records. But Howard was largely silent after 1992, at least until the issue of his excellent Teenage Snuff Film in 2000. He was emerging from his long exile near the end of the decade with guest appearances before recording Pop Crimes in early 2009 with Mick Harvey on drums and organ, and J.P. Shilo on bass (save for a couple