"Reissue of the final solo album by the hugely overlooked Australian post-punk hero ... Listening to Pop Crimes now is as awe-inspiring as it is heartbreaking, a scorching reminder of a talent overlooked and gone too soon. With hope, its reissue will hopefully inspire a new strain of young music fans, enamored of the darker side of life and expert enough to articulate it through an instrument. Just as long as that instrument isn't a guitar. Howard saw to that and this release was his final say on the matter".