Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1272225382_16.jpg
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:06 (five years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/5zP1NPa.jpg
― octobeard, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 06:12 (five years ago)
Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
― octobeard, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 06:13 (five years ago)
Tame Impala - Slow Rush
https://i.imgur.com/Z8Vsvzd.jpg
― octobeard, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 06:16 (five years ago)
Oval - Scis
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4083662746_16.jpg
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 08:48 (five years ago)
https://s.s-bol.com/imgbase0/imagebase3/extralarge/FC/6/4/9/0/9200000123960946.jpg
The Homesick - The Big Exercise
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:02 (five years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/PAYAY03.jpg?1Witchbones Goety
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:16 (five years ago)
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2020/02/Making_A_Door_Less_Open.AlbumCoverjpg-1582653145-640x640.jpg
Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open
the fawning for this dude is exhausting, but I think this cover pushes me from indifferent to active dislike
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 16:00 (five years ago)
agreed, horrible cover
― devvvine, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 16:04 (five years ago)
the fawning for this dude
lol, everyone here seems to hate him! ;P
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:48 (five years ago)
oh not here, no. just in general, he feels pretty inescapable elsewhere
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:50 (five years ago)
Surely Tame Impala can't be the first album cover to use a photo from the Kolmanskop, Namibia ghost town?
https://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BeFunky-Collage-106.jpg
That place is a Storm Thorgerson wet dream.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 27 February 2020 05:11 (five years ago)
Сталкер in the desert
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 27 February 2020 08:05 (five years ago)
i normally love this annual thread, but has to be said, its not the best of starts to the year re cover designs.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:38 (five years ago)
I was going to ask if the Tame Impala cover was a pre-existing piece of art - it's a weird one where I love the image, but I don't feel like it bodes well for the music inside. I guess it's like, if I saw the image alone, I would be all "YES! Portentousness! The folly of man! Nature returns to conquer! Look upon my works ye mighty!" But seeing it as an album cover, I'm just "this music is going to be boring".
― emil.y, Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:03 (five years ago)
The Homesick cover is really cool, I love that aesthetic.
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:15 (five years ago)
(I guess that really dates me & my tastes, lol)
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:16 (five years ago)
Antti Lötjönen (Finnish jazz bassist), Quintet East. Not out till April:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1368219521_10.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:36 (five years ago)
Viscera, Obsidian. Out in March.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1055657978_10.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:37 (five years ago)
Cordyceps, Betrayal. Out in April.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2793536543_16.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:38 (five years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/SQoWzO0.jpg
Arca - @@@@@
― octobeard, Thursday, 27 February 2020 20:43 (five years ago)
eww
― Indexed, Thursday, 27 February 2020 21:18 (five years ago)
exactly.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 February 2020 21:58 (five years ago)
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0563368616_10.jpg
― na (NA), Thursday, 27 February 2020 22:04 (five years ago)
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2355841713_10.jpg
― na (NA), Thursday, 27 February 2020 22:06 (five years ago)
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5e3dd93620256b00096ba218/1:1/w_320/2017%20%E2%80%93%202019_AAL.jpg
― na (NA), Thursday, 27 February 2020 22:08 (five years ago)
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5e4d5209f98c800008cf6620/1:1/w_320/King-Krule-Man-Alive.jpg
king krule "man alive"
― na (NA), Thursday, 27 February 2020 22:09 (five years ago)
x's and p's that Arca cover is so bad I have to wonder if that's a Perry Farrell project
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 27 February 2020 23:13 (five years ago)
I kind of hate every album cover presented in this thread so far lol, the one I like the best is King Krule but I don’t like his music at all.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 28 February 2020 07:04 (five years ago)
I don’t understand if the watermark on the Against All Logic is an aesthetic choice or if they just couldn’t be bothered licensing the stock photo
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 28 February 2020 07:20 (five years ago)
Really liking the cover of drummer Ted Poor's new album:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71QHzn8bAqL.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 29 February 2020 00:45 (five years ago)
http://www.nme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Bene%CC%81t-696x696.jpg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 03:13 (five years ago)
"Horrible 70s Album Titles" thread is now a musical genre
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 07:05 (five years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/eepQRwm.jpg
Pedro Vian Ibillorca
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 March 2020 08:57 (five years ago)
JoJo - Good to Knowhttps://www.rap-up.com/app/uploads/2020/04/jojo-good-to-know.jpg
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:30 (five years ago)
(For the avoidance of doubt — the promo-style copy at the top is actually part of the retail artwork.)
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:34 (five years ago)
Kehlani - It Was Good Until It Wasn't
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXd5dfdUMAEn3_k?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXd5dfcVAAEohKn?format=jpg&name=large
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Friday, 8 May 2020 05:14 (five years ago)
1995 epilepsy - 1995 epilepsy
https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/659431/large/0810025347567.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 8 May 2020 14:01 (five years ago)
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3858028849_10.jpg
chicano batman - invisible people. good album, too.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 May 2020 14:31 (five years ago)
has a very Hipgnosis vibe in my eyes
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 8 May 2020 14:45 (five years ago)
Charli XCX - How I’m Feeling Now
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX7WNhXXkAA-yoV?format=jpg&name=large
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Friday, 15 May 2020 04:28 (five years ago)
Great tunes, but this might be the worst album cover of 2020.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1efcc0ec46584256375b78cda1b7abda73a7b6c2/0_0_3000_3000/master/3000.jpg
― ilxor, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 00:29 (five years ago)
Let's try that again with a different URL...
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1efcc0ec46584256375b78cda1b7abda73a7b6c2/0_0_3000_3000/master/3000.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=491a828ac1d536350379cdbca80728ef
― ilxor, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 00:32 (five years ago)
god i hate every cover in this thread except maybe 1995 epilepsy
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 02:36 (five years ago)
Fuck, this cover art from the Strokes is ugly. Looks like it was drawn by a first grader. Is this seriously the best thing they could think of?
https://fordhamobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Nyckole-Lopez-ram-jams.jpeg
― ilxor, Thursday, 25 June 2020 06:00 (five years ago)
it's Basquiat isn't it?
― making gazebo money (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 June 2020 05:16 (five years ago)
helena hauff - kern vol. 5
https://exclaim.ca//images/helena-hauff-kern-vol-5.jpg
― davey, Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:16 (five years ago)
― davey, Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:17 (five years ago)
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3997242001_10.jpg
― pomenitul, Thursday, 16 July 2020 21:48 (five years ago)
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2020/07/Black-Marble-I-Must-Be-Living-Twice-1593697092.jpg
― circa1916, Friday, 31 July 2020 16:36 (five years ago)
This thread has been neglected.
― octobeard, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:24 (five years ago)
Moodymann - TAKEN AWAY
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1317778650_16.jpg
So many good covers missing here.
Nnamdi - Brat
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1974276704_16.jpg
― octobeard, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:26 (five years ago)
Bibio - Sleep on the Wing
https://music.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Bibio-Album-Art-2020.jpg
― octobeard, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:30 (five years ago)
Moses Sumney - Grae
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2251086377_10.jpg
― octobeard, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:32 (five years ago)
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music
https://www.magneticmag.com/.image/t_share/MTcwNDE5ODQ5NDk4MDExMzI2/tom-misch-and-yussef-dayes-what-kinda-music.png
― octobeard, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:34 (five years ago)
And notable because this is my least favorite album cover of the year so far:
Jerry Paper - Abracadabra
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0478067739_16.jpg
― octobeard, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:40 (five years ago)
Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids - Shaman!
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0991919912_10.jpg
― rob, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:50 (five years ago)
xp you trippin, that's magical af and it beats the heck outta this
https://i.imgur.com/oaJSMbF.jpg
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:52 (five years ago)
Ha, yeah that Jerry Paper cover art is pretty amazing in its own way, and definitely deserves to be here.
― octobeard, Friday, 31 July 2020 21:03 (five years ago)
What's the baby + keyboard one?
― Rob, give a listen to Iggy Stooge (morrisp), Friday, 31 July 2020 21:27 (five years ago)
That Jerry Paper album cover really could've been content with the Hee Haw font, the barbershop quartet shirt, and that awkward crouch. I'm not sure the snail eyes were even strictly necessary.
― enochroot, Saturday, 1 August 2020 01:10 (five years ago)
it's really more of a beach boys shirt, barbershop quartets tend to wear red striped vests
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 1 August 2020 01:14 (five years ago)
https://img.discogs.com/yfrO9J_RwOxady4xmHHobOze0b8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-15678059-1595758414-1124.jpeg.jpg
― enochroot, Sunday, 16 August 2020 01:14 (five years ago)
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/8158IuZmUQL._SL1500_.jpg
― brimstead, Monday, 24 August 2020 02:10 (five years ago)
i like looking at the Deep Purple cover more than i'd like the album i'm pretty sure
also the band name/font and cover have a very desert/stoner vibe.
― With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 24 August 2020 09:40 (five years ago)
Lol at dissing Basquiat, one of the most important and influential figures in modern art, via the Strokes album upthread.
The actual cover is different than the one posted though, that one seems like a digital reproduction.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 24 August 2020 20:08 (five years ago)
Btw, Basquiat himself did design the cover for Rammellzee’s Beat Bop
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 24 August 2020 20:10 (five years ago)
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2133996219_10.jpg
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets (Left), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:03 (five years ago)
bloke from hiatus kaiyote
parody of dated aesthetic feels v dated itself now as does the unbearable self aware irony of it all
excerpts I heard on bandcamp are as horrible as could be expected
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets (Left), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:12 (five years ago)
Throw it in here:
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=109867
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:15 (five years ago)
Weird that the title doesn't show up. It was my feeble attempt at a 'Rolling Abominable [Current Year] Album Covers' thread.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:16 (five years ago)
at least 1/3 of this thread could go in there tbh
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets (Left), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:23 (five years ago)
*sigh* we've been through this
http://i.imgur.com/PEG9C.jpg
new concept for 2k11 -- you decide whether they are 'good'/'crap' etc
― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, December 16, 2010 3:00 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Noteworthy album covers of 2011
― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:23 (five years ago)
I mean I'd throw the Jerry Paper cover in the other thread, but yeah I figured "noteworthy" meant just that, and not as a judgement of quality.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:40 (five years ago)
Fair enough. I tend to parse it as a positive adjective but it doesn't have to be, it's true.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:41 (five years ago)
https://www.discogs.com/Orb-Abolition-Of-The-Royal-Familia/master/1704143
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:51 (five years ago)
Nubya Garcia - Source
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3209158474_16.jpg
― octobeard, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:52 (five years ago)
https://storage.highresaudio.com/2020/06/25/ziipvi-bachredemp-preview-m3.jpg
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 August 2020 18:53 (five years ago)
Nothing, The Great Dismal
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5f5b92a489222a602f235cd3/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/NOTHING.jpg
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 18:00 (five years ago)
Nice.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 September 2020 18:02 (five years ago)
That's a great cover. Is it the first glimpse of the Large Sad Man without his cowl? (I'm assuming by that name/title combo it's funeral doom?)
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 11 September 2020 18:05 (five years ago)
indie-shoegaze with a tiny sprinkle of doom iirc
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 18:06 (five years ago)
Ah, ok.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 11 September 2020 18:06 (five years ago)
Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
https://i.imgur.com/k5I1xA8.png
― octobeard, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 20:24 (four years ago)
sturgill simpson - cuttin grass
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkUbcyAUwAAjLl0?format=jpg&name=small
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Thursday, 15 October 2020 13:37 (four years ago)
https://redirect.haulix.com//R0q_T4qcda14kEJYon_ChRt2O3vvmcRzzzkK7iTMMJE%3d/PromoAccessory_165765.jpg
might be huge, sorry
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 13:00 (four years ago)
^ that was Coathangers
simple, but does something to my eyes
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2523226261_16.jpg
This is the new Zavoloka
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 13:02 (four years ago)
Dang had no idea there was new Zavoloka, will check out asap
― octobeard, Thursday, 29 October 2020 18:50 (four years ago)
Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
https://i.imgur.com/RtiGsgE.jpg
― octobeard, Thursday, 29 October 2020 18:51 (four years ago)
Done by the amazing Robert Beatty, his website is a treasure trove of killer album covers.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 October 2020 18:52 (four years ago)
Mrs. Piss – Self-Surgeryhttps://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4118909094_10.jpg
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 04:45 (four years ago)
Duma - Duma
https://i.imgur.com/RJURKXM.jpg
― octobeard, Sunday, 20 December 2020 03:46 (four years ago)
wow
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 20 December 2020 11:26 (four years ago)
Keleketla! - Keleketla!https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0794793379_10.jpg
― Nabozo, Sunday, 20 December 2020 11:50 (four years ago)