Noteworthy album covers of 2021

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Voilaaa - Voiciii
https://i.imgur.com/6axIU2H.jpg

octobeard, Sunday, 7 February 2021 01:37 (four years ago)

Love that one.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 7 February 2021 02:15 (four years ago)

Sam Gendel - Fresh Bread
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2248659532_10.jpg

Ferriterium - Calvaire
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0776440860_10.jpg

Eric Chenaux - 3 Stars On Mountain Of Doom
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0911942083_10.jpg

Boron - VII
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2196064725_10.jpg

Kagami Smile - And Backwards
(from mid-December 2020, so considering counting it since released after list season?)
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2196064725_10.jpg

Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Sunday, 7 February 2021 03:23 (four years ago)

Whoops, messed that last one up--here's Kagami Smile - And Backwards:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2022345212_16.jpg

Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Sunday, 7 February 2021 03:24 (four years ago)

Sarah Mary Chadwick - Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5f91cd7c362a0a17e78b7d11/master/w_1280%2Cc_limit/Sarah-Mary-Chadwick.jpg

babe for the weekend (morrisp), Sunday, 7 February 2021 03:26 (four years ago)

My Cherie Amorica

Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Sunday, 7 February 2021 03:36 (four years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2975740667_10.jpg

octobeard, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 18:18 (four years ago)

That Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders album looks interesting! (Also great album cover) is there a preview yet? I love both so I’m optimistic about that one.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 18:48 (four years ago)

I like this one:
https://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/albums/covers/other/191402019728.jpg

american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 18:52 (four years ago)

Indigo Sparke - Echo

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/602c274db9fab23b255cb6a6/master/w_1280%2Cc_limit/Indigo%252520Sparke%252520-%252520Echo.jpg

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Saturday, 20 February 2021 05:34 (four years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3791015577_10.jpg

i...uh

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 20:48 (four years ago)

pillow lorel?

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 20:54 (four years ago)

new Jam City album, Pillow Land. I am not into it

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:06 (four years ago)

(the cover, I mean, and its bargain bin Robert Beatty slime / Physical Therapy thing)

You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:07 (four years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4000683678_16.jpg

Kinlaw - The Tipping Scale
https://kinlaw.bandcamp.com/releases

Indexed, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:19 (four years ago)

That Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders album looks interesting! (Also great album cover) is there a preview yet? I love both so I’m optimistic about that one.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:48 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, amazing cover w/art by Julie Mehretu. I've only seen this unhelpful preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqFwIxkhT4s

Indexed, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 21:24 (four years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0836639283_10.jpg

Hilariously tragic.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 20:46 (four years ago)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91mr-myCGxL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

Van Morrison "Latest Record Project (Volume 1)"

koogs, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 12:01 (four years ago)

Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0731946993_10.jpg

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Friday, 5 March 2021 18:19 (four years ago)

https://music-b26f.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Cheap-Trick-Album-Art-2021-600x600.png

map ca. 1890 (map), Monday, 8 March 2021 21:29 (four years ago)

Looks like Cheap Trick got the number of Vampire Weekend's graphic designer.

enochroot, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 00:34 (four years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/tnwOAJe.jpg

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 March 2021 03:50 (four years ago)

Altin Gün - Yol

https://sentireascoltare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Altin-Gun-YOL.jpg

octobeard, Friday, 19 March 2021 07:57 (four years ago)

Alex Banks / War / woulg - Blue Gold

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1200910571_10.jpg

One of my favorite beat records of the year. This hits hard.

octobeard, Friday, 19 March 2021 08:09 (four years ago)

okay holy shit, this one:

Guapdad 4000 - 1176

https://i.imgur.com/z7X9GhW.jpg

octobeard, Saturday, 20 March 2021 02:44 (four years ago)

Superabundance - Superabundance

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2596995400_10.jpg

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 15:21 (four years ago)

four weeks pass...

Topaz Jones - Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/60802cfb9080feb0f2eb300d/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/Topaz-Jones.jpeg

best time to call is friday and saturday afternoons! (morrisp), Friday, 23 April 2021 17:18 (four years ago)

Scooter - God Save the Rave. You'll want to zoom in on this.

https://e.snmc.io/i/fullres/w/af511e89e49cd14ef2c91baee6ea72f5/8946286

frogbs, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:20 (four years ago)

That Superabundance back a ways has like NinjaTune or MoWax vibes, is it just me?

Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 24 April 2021 10:38 (four years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0315775086_16.jpg

calzino, Saturday, 24 April 2021 11:25 (four years ago)

Roman Flügel - Eating Darkness

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1295698375_10.jpg

John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Thursday, 6 May 2021 21:06 (four years ago)

Little Snake - A Fragmented Love Story, Written By The Infinite Helix Architect

https://i.imgur.com/ABJygBw.jpg

It's like a cover depicting the death and destruction of Vapor Wave, I love it.

octobeard, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:22 (four years ago)

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2021/05/gaspard-auge-escapades-1620826853.jpg

enochroot, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:17 (four years ago)

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1057899320_10.jpg

Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 11:42 (four years ago)

Fantastic Man - Cloud Management

https://d1c4rk9le5opln.cloudfront.net/9bd33b8d513edb8c4c33313a2ce36a2c.jpg

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 00:22 (four years ago)

Begrudging golf clap for the Nice Price sticker:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/719StsAOvXS._SS500_.jpg

like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Saturday, 5 June 2021 16:27 (three years ago)

needs a cut out in the upper corner, it already looks sun faded

what a joker

brimstead, Saturday, 5 June 2021 16:32 (three years ago)

The price tag changes depending on the platform. At least for Apple Music and Spotify, which I've seen.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 June 2021 01:15 (three years ago)

that is admittedly v well done

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 6 June 2021 03:47 (three years ago)

btw if you're averse to listening to a new (or any other) John Mayer single, he really goes all in on a "Steve Winwood in 1986" thing with "Last Train Home." I hate how much I like it.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 June 2021 03:52 (three years ago)

Man, the first single (Last Train Home) is abysmal though. Like they found the last little part of the recent past that hasn't already been fully mined. The mine is about to collapse.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 6 June 2021 03:54 (three years ago)

haha xp

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 6 June 2021 03:54 (three years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/SbjohDK.jpg

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:38 (three years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3Yg0HfWYAECY6j?format=jpg&name=900x900

na (NA), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:27 (three years ago)

Mariah the Scientist - Ry Ry World

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4BANhVUYAkJ_Pc?format=jpg&name=medium

search term: buttrock (morrisp), Friday, 18 June 2021 17:11 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5tQmCTVoAYy0ys?format=jpg&name=medium

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 16:54 (three years ago)

https://www.secretlystore.com/resources/product/380/jag412.ao.aisles.fc.3000px-web.jpg

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 9 July 2021 04:35 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1001435145_16.jpg

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 2 August 2021 20:33 (three years ago)

Is this deliberately bad? Smokers Delight is one of my favourite covers, but...

https://i.imgur.com/5LCeJPH.jpg

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 15:26 (three years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Friends_That_Break_Your_Heart.jpg

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 7 August 2021 16:59 (three years ago)

I'm still pissed off this isn't correctly named Friends Who Break Your Heart. idc if that makes me a grammar cop, but I'm already predisposed to hate this album.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 7 August 2021 17:10 (three years ago)

If the average person doesn't even recognize that it's a mistake, then yep, you're a grammar cop. Grammar in the linguistic sense of the word is intuitive to native speakers of a language.

enochroot, Saturday, 7 August 2021 17:38 (three years ago)

“That” is acceptable, even when referring to people.

Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Saturday, 7 August 2021 17:41 (three years ago)

Ok, I see the rules have been loosened to include groups or classes of people. Still sounds wrong, though.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 7 August 2021 17:46 (three years ago)

Googling around, it looks like one of those things that has been done for centuries, and was never really a “rule”? I’m no expert myself, but that’s what these others are saying anyway.

Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Saturday, 7 August 2021 17:52 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...

New Drake album cover is… something

Confirmed that’s the cover art. #CLB 9.3 pic.twitter.com/Y2L4BidP2X

— Elliott Wilson (@ElliottWilson) August 30, 2021

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 30 August 2021 17:38 (three years ago)

niiiiice.

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Monday, 30 August 2021 17:53 (three years ago)

I can think of at least two different ways to interpret the message of that cover, and neither are good

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 August 2021 18:36 (three years ago)

two months pass...
one month passes...

Arca's Kick series all need to be here:

https://i.imgur.com/uPBj0dO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/iB1DH8d.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/PgcxQ5v.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/88G5XaJ.jpg

octobeard, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 20:17 (three years ago)

fuck i lived long enough to see retro Die Antwoord style become a thing

made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 23 December 2021 07:19 (three years ago)

one month passes...

Since there's no 2022 thread yet, I'll put this here

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/61531f87c1bc2a1272989319/1:1/w_320/Tanya-Tagaq-Tongues.jpeg

Indexed, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 15:05 (three years ago)


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