Name: Teenage Snuff Film
Brand: Rowland S Howard

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RSH1LP

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Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

With Etched D-Side.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-03-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5400863025724

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Total Cap

2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

RSH1CD

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Download code: No

Gatefold Card Pack.

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5400863025731

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Rowland S Howard

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Mute

Please note, some Mute issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label, it instead indicates that Mute was part of the EMI Group.

Founded in 1978 by [a=Daniel Miller], Mute (also known as [l36339]) releases various forms of music, with an emphasis on electronic and experimental pop. In May 2002 the label was acquired by the [l=EMI Group]. In 2010 Miller did an agreement with EMI to handle Mute as an independent label again, licensing the trademark from EMI via his company [l=Mute Artists Ltd.], but EMI kept the rights over Mute's back catalogue. After the EMI Group was dissolved, in 2012 [l206061] acquired [l636]'s back catalogue.

Branch offices exist in Germany ([l168349]) and in North America ([l36296]). 

Mute has spawned many regional and special-interest sublabels, some of which are still active. One offshoot, [l=Parallel Series], even became independent of [l636] Mute also operates Mute Bank Mail Order, which sells the label's merchandise directly to consumers. Mute Bank published two issues of [i]Mute Statement[/i], a softcover book that details the entire discography of the label and includes band profiles and photos of release artwork.

Another label strongly associated with Mute is [l=Toast Hawaii], run by [a=Depeche Mode]'s [a=Andrew Fletcher].

Label code: [b]LC 05834[/b] / [b]LC 5834[/b]

‘[b]P[/b]’, included to the catalog numbers,
generally stand for promo copies.
‘[b]L[/b]’, included to the catalog numbers,
generally stand for limited editions.

With his first solo album, Teenage Snuff Film, Roland S Howard unabashedly opens up the diseased chambers of his dark heart on a record transcendent with vengeance. Brooding back-up is provided by Mick Harvey on drums and Brian Hooper on bass with melancholic strings and organ, but the real violence is inflicted by Howard's pained lyrics and howling guitar. Opener Dead Radio calmly weighs up the yin and yang of a long-term relationship: "you're bad for me like cigarettes / you're good for me like coca-cola," Howard pines as his guitar curls like smoke around memories fond and foul. The pent-up rage simmers on Breakdown, as the singer "chokes on this heart of hate" while his snarled-up guitar raises up like a tsunami behind him. She Cried strips the pop sheen from the shangri-las original, leaving a tapestry of raw emotions. Exit Everything is a an epic death trip sung to a suitably apocalyptic arrangement. "i'm a misanthropic man," Howard finally admits on the closing track, Sleep Alone. But by then it's too late. the hate has taken hold as music roars around him, unleashed like a terrifying force of nature that inevitably leads to human devastation.

Teenage Snuff Film

Music GB

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