Noteworthy album covers of 2016

Had to see that album cover every day at work for months now (it's always on the front page of our one-stop's website), want to buy a copy just to burn it.

― we salute you, our half-inflated dark lord (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 February 2016 19:14 (ten years ago)

aaaargh agree, it's the most offensive cover this year

mods plz hide img

― niels, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 13:50 (ten years ago)

ok lol

― example (crüt), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 13:54 (ten years ago)

What's wrong with that cover? I think it's funny.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 13:58 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

Feeling these:

Skewbi & Head Dress - Aglantha
https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2451836814_10.jpg

Rüfüs (du Sol) - Bloom
http://images.musictimes.com/data/images/full/51701/rufus-du-sol-bloom.jpg

― Assault Mime (Sanpaku), Friday, 26 February 2016 19:42 (nine years ago)

this one's great

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/m83_junk_3600x3600.jpg

― niels, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 10:12 (nine years ago)

I've been following the guy who did that RUFUS cover on tumblr for a while. Lots of people have started going to him for cover art.

http://jackvanzet.tumblr.com/

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 13:52 (nine years ago)

Moomin - A Minor Thought
https://cdn.xlr8r.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Smallville_LP11_Moomin_Cover_Web.jpg

― davey, Thursday, 3 March 2016 09:01 (nine years ago)

or rather
https://cdn.xlr8r.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Smallville_LP11_Moomin_Cover_Web.jpg

― davey, Thursday, 3 March 2016 09:02 (nine years ago)

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FAQ2album.jpg

― ogmor, Friday, 4 March 2016 11:19 (nine years ago)

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/329236/large/804297826011_T25995052790054.jpg

Mary Lattimore - At The Dam

― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Saturday, 5 March 2016 18:45 (nine years ago)

Santana - Santana IV

https://cbsradionews.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/santana-iv.jpg

― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 20:13 (nine years ago)

m83s really doubling down on that crepey peter pan lost boys vibe from the last album eh

― ‏ ﷽ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 20:18 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/a8sC1S4.png

The Fall - Bingo Masters At The Witch Trials

― drive me to a girly rave (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 10 March 2016 13:58 (nine years ago)

so many limbs that don't seem to belong to anyone

― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 10 March 2016 14:41 (nine years ago)

a lot of these are dreadful

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:19 (nine years ago)

tellytubby riot cop wtf. that looks ugly as sin

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:20 (nine years ago)

Skewbi & Head Dress looks cool tho. Prince Rama cover is mesmerizing

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:21 (nine years ago)

The Fatima Al-Qadiri is a Josh Kline artwork. I agree that it's not very good, though (v Banksy "make u think"). Still reckon the album will be cool.

― emil.y, Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:26 (nine years ago)

Maybe the teletubby cop is popopo?

― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:46 (nine years ago)

(Or is that the joke? )

― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:49 (nine years ago)

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/0006635233_10.jpg

Mikael Seifu - Zelalem

― marcos, Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:07 (nine years ago)

hahahahahaha whoa xpost

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:09 (nine years ago)

huge bummer about the Fatima Al-Qadiri, when the cover is that bad i am not inclined to listen

― marcos, Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:10 (nine years ago)

nope

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/unnamed%20%2849%29.jpg%3Fwmode%3Dtransparent

― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:17 (nine years ago)

trying again:

http://https%3A//consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/garbage-strange-little-birds-album-new.jpg%3Fw%3D806%26h%3D806

― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:18 (nine years ago)

well whatever, it's the new Garbage cover.

― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:18 (nine years ago)

genuinely surprised someone hasn't released an album cover yet w a broken image link

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 March 2016 20:30 (nine years ago)

it could be like the white album and just have that little symbol in the corner like the album cover failed to load

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 March 2016 20:31 (nine years ago)

http://screamermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Soul-Asylum-Change-of-Fortune.jpg

― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 10 March 2016 20:43 (nine years ago)

Oh man a couple of days ago I was brushing my teeth before going to bed and out of nowhere I had a sudden intense memory that Soul Asylum was a band that existed.

― joygoat, Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:02 (nine years ago)

how did it make you feel?

― ogmor, Friday, 11 March 2016 11:45 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Azealia-Banks-SLAY-Z-2016.jpg

― niels, Thursday, 31 March 2016 17:13 (nine years ago)

http://royalpotatofamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cover-art-1.jpg

― Mordy, Friday, 8 April 2016 18:17 (nine years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61q1dbs3t5L.jpg

CCR Headcleaner - 'Tear Down The Wall'

― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Friday, 15 April 2016 15:24 (nine years ago)

so this has become a joke thread, right?

― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 15 April 2016 16:02 (nine years ago)

notable can mean a variety of things

― Mordy, Friday, 15 April 2016 16:11 (nine years ago)

grand puba - black to the future
http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/store/covers_original/IHHP546CD.jpg

― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 15 April 2016 22:22 (nine years ago)

(cover connection)

ace frehley - origins 1

http://assets.blabbermouth.net.s3.amazonaws.com/media/acefrehleyorigins1cd.jpg

― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 15 April 2016 22:26 (nine years ago)

XP: So disappointed this wasn't Detroit Grand Pubahs.

― Unyielding Dispair Foundation Repair, LLC (Sanpaku), Friday, 15 April 2016 22:26 (nine years ago)

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good one
makes u wish it was bigger

― niels, Friday, 26 August 2016 23:17 (nine years ago)

that is excellent

― brimstead, Friday, 26 August 2016 23:26 (nine years ago)

new vince staples cover photo gives me a hearty chuckle
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Article_Width/1608/vince-staples-prima.jpg

― davey, Monday, 29 August 2016 10:18 (nine years ago)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/delivery.midheaven.com/c/135564/images/604197114818.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 29 August 2016 16:23 (nine years ago)

two new live bill orcutt/chris corsano tapes continuing their tradition of excellent album covers
http://www.forcedexposure.com/App_Themes/Default/Images/product_images/close_up/p/PAL044LP_CU.jpg

― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 15:30 (nine years ago)

vince staples cover is so so bad and it a dumb trope used in like the corniest of advertisements and has been for years

― marcos, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 15:53 (nine years ago)

xp that's a top notch cover

― ogmor, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 10:15 (nine years ago)

http://2814.dreamcatalogue.com/cover.gif

― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:53 (nine years ago)

Huh. I know the album, but how does that cover work--is it just for the digital editions?

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:01 (nine years ago)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:04 (nine years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/La_Femme_Mystere_album.jpg
La Femme - Mystère

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 2 September 2016 07:15 (nine years ago)

I guess the hidden vagina is intentional?

― Tuomas, Friday, 2 September 2016 08:19 (nine years ago)

I'd think so, yeah.

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 2 September 2016 08:34 (nine years ago)

"Hidden"

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 2 September 2016 09:08 (nine years ago)

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2344318842_10.jpg

whatever the thinking behind this I appreciate it

― aromantic cuck (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 3 September 2016 07:42 (nine years ago)

soul jazz tribute/piss-take?

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 September 2016 08:43 (nine years ago)

yeah. why someone'd choose to do that for a compilation of crusty underground metal bands escapes me but it made me smile so

― aromantic cuck (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 3 September 2016 09:29 (nine years ago)

http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Laura-Mvula-The-Dreaming-Room-2016.jpg

― Ludo, Saturday, 3 September 2016 10:58 (nine years ago)

http://www.anp-archief.nl/attachment/109971

― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 3 September 2016 11:11 (nine years ago)

Haha

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 19:40 (nine years ago)

Connoisseur and Brainoil rule. OK, back to regularly scheduled thread.

― alpine static, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 23:24 (nine years ago)

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14310301_10154186552304681_2792569586934503660_o.jpg

― savvinesslessness (map), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 22:45 (nine years ago)

janky japanese translations still big in 2k16. i dig the graphx tho

― davey, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 03:05 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/nycH0BN.jpg

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 05:00 (nine years ago)

Love the color scheme and fonts on this

http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/10/bs235_frkwater_cvr-640x640.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 08:46 (nine years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Kings-of-Leon-Walls-2016-2480x2480.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 13 October 2016 20:28 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

Cute typography...
http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Tove-Lo-Lady-Wood-2016-2480x2480.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 28 October 2016 09:06 (nine years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2485387565_10.jpg

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 28 October 2016 10:21 (nine years ago)

http://communicatingvessels.com/wp-content/uploads/WRAY_Hypatia_cover2-400x400.jpg

― Blood On The Knobs, Friday, 28 October 2016 15:28 (nine years ago)

^ Wray - Hypatia

― Blood On The Knobs, Friday, 28 October 2016 15:28 (nine years ago)

convextion - 2845

https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000177768606-eb4pgk-t500x500.jpg

looks like one of those 90s ambient comps on Apollo

― brimstead, Friday, 28 October 2016 20:11 (nine years ago)

https://cdn.xlr8r.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Pirotecnia_Vol_2_digital-770x770.jpg

Pirotecnia Vol. 2

― soref, Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:31 (nine years ago)

Tinashe - Nightride:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2016/11/tinashe-nightride.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:20 (nine years ago)

That cover is amazing and disturbs me.

Hope I didn't miss this one above - Altered Hours "In Heat Not Sorry." I like it.

http://i67.tinypic.com/14l2j4.jpg

― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 14 November 2016 04:44 (nine years ago)

Ok. That is ace.

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 09:27 (nine years ago)

The Maghreban, Brooklyn
http://thebluewalrus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/the-maghreban-brooklyn.jpg

― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 09:30 (nine years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/StonesBlueandLonesome.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:39 (nine years ago)

bring back gorilla

― nashwan, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:42 (nine years ago)

loon and blowsome

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 01:39 (nine years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/Awaken%2C_My_Love%21.jpg/480px-Awaken%2C_My_Love%21.jpg

Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!"

― nashwan, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 11:27 (nine years ago)

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/here_are_the_17_worst_album_covers_of_the_year-2016_in_lists

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 15:52 (nine years ago)

xp that is awesome

― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:02 (nine years ago)

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2016/12/tim-darcy.jpg

― Dinsdale, Thursday, 8 December 2016 21:06 (nine years ago)

https://d3kdsn8w8659vg.cloudfront.net/Images/ExtraLarge/20160906041808-1825e1e4-ad80-4092-a033-b30db385f57e.png

― wanderly braggin' (seandalai), Friday, 9 December 2016 01:10 (nine years ago)

Desperately fending off glittery plunger attack

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 9 December 2016 01:52 (nine years ago)

it's an occupational hazard

― wanderly braggin' (seandalai), Friday, 9 December 2016 09:32 (nine years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0287150878_5.jpg

<3 connan mockasin

― davey, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 09:44 (nine years ago)

er, here:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0287150878_5.jpg

― davey, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 09:44 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

is there a 2017 thread

― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:52 (eight years ago)

Noteworthy album covers of 2017

― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:54 (eight years ago)

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