http://al-la.ru/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/a-camp-colonia-300x300.jpg
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:21 (sixteen years ago)
'avatar' is quite an apt term for these times isn't it
i love this
http://eyeslitcrypt.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/bonnie_prince_billy-beware-cover_art.jpg
― preview& potmXII& chinchillas& surfboar (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 23 March 2009 22:35 (sixteen years ago)
(the cover, haven't heard the album)
― preview& potmXII& chinchillas& surfboar (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 23 March 2009 23:08 (sixteen years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8dscbsCesxE/SblTXbNQdHI/AAAAAAAADo8/SbfdX58Gmsw/s400/thejuanmacleancover.jpg
― goodbye pork pie scarf (The Reverend), Monday, 23 March 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)
http://music.parrygill.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/keri-hilson-in-a-perfect-world-2-300x300.jpg
http://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/105495.jpg
― mizzell, Monday, 23 March 2009 23:36 (sixteen years ago)
What do you like about the Keri Hilson one, rev? it seems a bit genric to me.
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 23 March 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)
here's one from '09 that I dig, speaking to the point above about album covers becoming avatars, something like this
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/12702-200-million-thousand.jpg
at a much smaller size (like what you'd see on your iTunes or ipod etc...) has a different effect
http://www.baeblemusic.com/thumbnail.ashx?ImgFilePath=/images/albumreviews/200millionthousand.jpg&width=150&height=150
― preview& potmXII& chinchillas& surfboar (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 02:47 (sixteen years ago)
I don't much care for any of those, actually, but. . .
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2009/lukid-foma.jpg
― mehlt, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 03:01 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/cover/8/360/8639.jpgMay have come out in 2008 in a few places but whatevs.
― Chesney Freemanwater Revival (maciej recognizing trill), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 03:52 (sixteen years ago)
And that's DJ Sprinkles' Midtown 120 Blues, btw.
― Chesney Freemanwater Revival (maciej recognizing trill), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 03:53 (sixteen years ago)
besides being my favorite album of the year, a good cover:
http://thehurstreview.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/coward.jpg
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 04:01 (sixteen years ago)
Was going to post Midtown 120, stopped at the last moment and I have absolutely no idea why cause I think it's great.
(and I should buy that Lukid album too)
― mehlt, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 04:14 (sixteen years ago)
That Black Lips cover is pretty great. Just drag yr browser left and right quick and if you don't have a superfast LCD, you can see the effect in the larger version.
― plenty chong (libcrypt), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 05:59 (sixteen years ago)
The Keri Hilson one (though it's a good album) is just Photoshop wank.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 06:02 (sixteen years ago)
Wow I had no idea that was a face on the Black Lips cover. Freaky.
― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 06:51 (sixteen years ago)
xp: Yeah, I'm conflicted re: the Hilson cover. On the one hand, it IS photoshop wank, indisputably. On the other, I like it a lot in spite of this.
― goodbye pork pie scarf (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 08:51 (sixteen years ago)
I think the Hilson one is awful for seemingly obvious reasons. Why do you like it?
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 11:42 (sixteen years ago)
The photo of her is fine but the background and font makes it look like a Hed Kandi comp - DNW :(
― some dude's gizmo (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 12:10 (sixteen years ago)
http://laincreibleverdad.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/f.jpg
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 12:27 (sixteen years ago)
http://8106.tv/blog/audio/2009_02/FR/feverray.jpg
― mizzell, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:18 (sixteen years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rVZDMVadRrA/SZg4yiEsFVI/AAAAAAAAAg8/NAnV_G47BiE/s320/akron.jpg
New Akron/Family album - my promo actually has the band name/title on it which I think improves it by virtue of using a rad typeface
― Climate Of Basshunter (DJ Mencap), Monday, 6 April 2009 13:54 (sixteen years ago)
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/leviz/electrikred-howtobealady-1.jpg
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 April 2009 14:17 (sixteen years ago)
i'd like it more without the red banknotey framing tho
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 6 April 2009 14:20 (sixteen years ago)
i like the banknote framing because it a) looks like a banknote, implying money as one of the considerations for being a lady, b) looks like a picture frame, making the main image look like a scene from a victorian painting or something, which is also rather ladylike
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 April 2009 14:23 (sixteen years ago)
i like most of the covers in this thread apart from a couple which are boring, and apart from the black lips one which gives me a headache. a cover that one doesn't like to look at is by defn not a good cover
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 April 2009 14:25 (sixteen years ago)
All of their press shots (or the first three pages of GIS at any rate) are absolutely amazing
xp re Electrik Red
― Climate Of Basshunter (DJ Mencap), Monday, 6 April 2009 14:27 (sixteen years ago)
whens that gonna leak btw >:(
― prostitutes all over the place (k3vin k.), Monday, 6 April 2009 14:28 (sixteen years ago)
maybe they should be wearing banknote frocks
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 6 April 2009 14:28 (sixteen years ago)
also the background girl really does not look like she is in those surroundings (i mean way more than the other 3)
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 6 April 2009 14:29 (sixteen years ago)
that would be a bit too obvious, no? as it is they look like alice in wonderland characters. or, more accurately, through the looking-glass.
what is that white thing that she is stepping on, though? a newspaper? a bird's wing? uh.
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 April 2009 14:31 (sixteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NaDsR3gkp-0/SdiufSwIh6I/AAAAAAAAATY/_LRlAmnp0xQ/S240/swfwf.bmp
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 12:45 (sixteen years ago)
vile
― rio (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:00 (sixteen years ago)
you really find it that objectionable? best grime cover i've seen by some distance
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:04 (sixteen years ago)
one thing really irritating me about the A Camp one is the really bright rim of the bath on the bottom left - a more straight on angle may have been better (otoh it's good that you don't see too much of the wig holder)
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:07 (sixteen years ago)
All that the electrik red cover says to me about being a lady is that it involves being colonically irrigated after attempting to eat a cactus and then wiping your bum on a goose's neck.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:00 (sixteen years ago)
newham generals vs midfield general
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NaDsR3gkp-0/SdiufSwIh6I/AAAAAAAAATY/_LRlAmnp0xQ/S240/swfwf.bmp http://www.edbangerrecords.com/newsletter/newsletters/25_12_08/MIDFIELD.jpg
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:02 (sixteen years ago)
These are mostly pretty horrible covers IMHO
― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 08:11 (sixteen years ago)
http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/Sometimes_I_Wish_We_Were_an_Eagle-Bill_Callahan_480.jpg
― Number None, Saturday, 18 April 2009 11:11 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.urb.com/uploads/reviews/cd_reviews/Dan_Deacon_Bromst_Carpark_Records.jpg
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Monday, 20 April 2009 13:18 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/monotonix_cover.jpg
― mizzell, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:03 (sixteen years ago)
Goatse Fingers
― At War With False Nose (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 14:25 (sixteen years ago)
http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/Infinte_Light-Lightning_Dust_480.jpg
― mizzell, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:47 (sixteen years ago)
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2006/o5y2srfox2rcd5qr7r2i000.jpg
― nerve_pylon, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:03 (sixteen years ago)
http://images.blog.edelight.de/dance-music/new/one_hell.jpg
― unban dictionary (blueski), Sunday, 30 August 2009 01:34 (sixteen years ago)
I love good album art. I look forward to threads devoted to the decade's best (and worst) album art. In the meantime:
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/tampacalling/files/2009/06/ylatengo.jpg
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 01:40 (sixteen years ago)
http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/WindXs_Poem-Mount_Eerie_480.jpg
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)
http://dearlucifer.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/courtneylove.jpg
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 August 2009 01:46 (sixteen years ago)
That is good. What album is it?
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 01:46 (sixteen years ago)
Courtney Love - Nobody's Daughter
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 August 2009 01:51 (sixteen years ago)
Considering that Hell has remixed Grace Jones, the cover of Teufelswerk must be a reference of this one:
http://static.blogstorage.hi-pi.com/travelblogg.se/s/sk/skivomslag/images/gd/1205759619.jpg
Plus the "cut paper" technique used in Hell's jacket reminds me of this:
http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/71/Gracejonesmyjamaicanguy.jpg
― Tuomas, Thursday, 3 September 2009 19:42 (sixteen years ago)
y'know, that really could've gone in the "cover connections" thread, dude
― some dude, Thursday, 3 September 2009 19:48 (sixteen years ago)
Why couldn't discuss similarities/references in covers in this thread, if we spot them? It was done upthread with the Courtney Love/Marianne Faithfull connection, and no one was complaining.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)
"why couldn't we"
2nding the Local Flavor cover, love it.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)
tbh i didn't realize that the Hell cover had been posted in the thread already, i thought you were introducing it into the thread w/ that post. either way, nothing to say you can or can't do anything, it just makes a lot more sense to post that kind of thing in the thread established for exactly that.
xpost
― some dude, Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:04 (sixteen years ago)
woah thread police
there is definitely a paler shade of yellow in the dj hell cover. i do like the portrait of hell, but the rest of the design just screams 2003 to me
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:07 (sixteen years ago)
like this too.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q39C-KJX7k8/SnDJ1UeJ0yI/AAAAAAAAAiw/Qqb8yu94hwo/s400/9065.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:08 (sixteen years ago)
lol sorry like i said if i'd noticed it upthread i wouldn't have said anything xpost
― some dude, Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)
^What is that one? I like it too.xpost
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)
as far as outdoor photography goes, this is pretty good:
http://www.twistedmusic.com/images/news/TWSCD36_final.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:15 (sixteen years ago)
"^What is that one? I like it too.xpost"
nurse with wound - surveillance lounge
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)
I friggin hate the Bibio artwork - I wrote a (pretty) long review of it a while back and spent ages going on about how dumb it was and WTF was he/Warp thinking
What are your specific objections? Seems like nice ink drawing. (The title is bad, I agree.)
― jaymc, Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:18 (sixteen years ago)
lol i didn't notice your second post, sorry
not sure if this counts but i like it:
http://s44.radikal.ru/i104/0904/7c/12d184c0db62.jpg
that nurse cover is great
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:19 (sixteen years ago)
<img>http://static.boomkat.com/images/221167/333.jpg<;/img>
Don't know anything about the band other than they're on ITR, but when I saw this CD in the store I had to look back a bunch of times. Something about the way the text is laid out made it really jump out of the jewel box.
― matinee, Friday, 4 September 2009 01:20 (sixteen years ago)
duhhttp://static.boomkat.com/images/221167/333.jpg
^i have a single of theirs which is pretty good
― mince lice (electricsound), Friday, 4 September 2009 01:23 (sixteen years ago)
multiple xposts to jaymc (sorry, went out earlyish last night) - yeah it's a 'nice' drawing but nothing special in itself, and combined with the title and the type of music on the album has the effect of almost willing you to expect pleasant mediocrity. It's like the quote-unquote folktronica equivalent of those shitty Bargrooves comp CDs, or Hed Kandi or whatever, except at least you can figure out how/why stuff like that is trying to convey a lifestyle... I just cannot fathom what he's trying to say by having that on the cover
― DJ AMencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 4 September 2009 11:05 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.tomentosarecords.com/xzpcsddd.jpg
― psychgawsple, Friday, 4 September 2009 18:24 (sixteen years ago)
http://stereogum.com/img/thumbnails/posts/spiral-stairs-the-real-feel.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 14 September 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)
http://deadsoundmusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/oneida-rated-o.jpg
― merked, Monday, 14 September 2009 23:52 (sixteen years ago)
Oh, I was gonna say. About the Spiral Stairs font -- I think it's the Family Ties font.
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 14 September 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)
what's that, psychgawspie? and is there a bigger jpeg of it?
― send a hilarious message or make a "wild" statement (Whitey on the Moon), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 03:35 (sixteen years ago)
I liked the Danae vibe of this Delorean EP:
http://www.galacollette.com/site_media_galacollette/cms_images/serie_img/delorean____.jpg
― hypermediocrity (Derelict), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 07:07 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.mbvmusic.com/images/hornet-leg-ribbon-of-fear.jpg
― mizzell, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 19:21 (sixteen years ago)
lolhttp://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/harmarcover.jpg
― mizzell, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 19:45 (sixteen years ago)
Actually existing album covers
― unban dictionary (blueski), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)
http://files.list.co.uk/images/2009/08/19/jim-orourke-lp-LST066062.jpg
LP especially.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 20:04 (sixteen years ago)
I quite like the covers on the series of Audion releases this year. In chronological order:
http://static.ghostly.com/images/artists/5/albums/257/SPC-69_300.jpghttp://static.ghostly.com/images/artists/5/albums/258/SPC-70_3002.jpghttp://static.ghostly.com/images/artists/5/albums/266/SPC-77_300x300.jpghttp://static.ghostly.com/images/artists/5/albums/268/SPC-76_300x300.jpg
― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)
― send a hilarious message or make a "wild" statement (Whitey on the Moon), Monday, September 14, 2009 8:35 PM (2 weeks ago)
it's james ferraro - heaven's gate (i found a larger jpeg but it looks not so good). he's the dude from the skaters, all of the releases on their pacific city and new age tapes labels have a similar xeroxed, b+w look on the cover...
http://www.tomentosarecords.com/xzpcssf.jpghttp://www.tomentosarecords.com/xzpcss.jpghttp://www.tomentosarecords.com/jvnajrvdkva.jpg
― psychgawsple, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:52 (sixteen years ago)
http://static.boomkat.com/images/253356/333.jpg
i like this one. good album, too.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Thursday, 1 October 2009 01:27 (sixteen years ago)
congratulations to the smoke monster from 'lost' on his new solo album
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 1 October 2009 01:28 (sixteen years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XoXuOfPJEyM/SqYTBJ2EfhI/AAAAAAAAApk/j40_3cHZsdQ/s320/six-organs-luminous-night.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 1 October 2009 01:29 (sixteen years ago)
http://static.boomkat.com/images/226570/333.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 1 October 2009 01:30 (sixteen years ago)
sorry if this is huge, but I think it's awesome. The actual booklet comes on amazing glossy stock.
ihttp://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa291/no_face_2007/Cover_eMEGO094_itunes.jpg
― t (tricky), Thursday, 1 October 2009 02:23 (sixteen years ago)
doh that style of linking images was two ILMs ago
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa291/no_face_2007/Cover_eMEGO094_itunes.jpg
― t (tricky), Thursday, 1 October 2009 02:24 (sixteen years ago)
This is Ballads by Ekkehard Ehlers and Paul Wirkus.
http://illegaltagteam.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/333.jpg
― t (tricky), Thursday, 1 October 2009 02:28 (sixteen years ago)
^luv it
― hyperstudio (skeletor), Thursday, 1 October 2009 02:34 (sixteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61TDezABVOL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― 2009 Nominee, Best African (Whitey on the Moon), Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:39 (sixteen years ago)
it looks like he has a tumour.
― be the sardine (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:15 (sixteen years ago)
Can't say any of these really grab me: http://www.artvinyl.com/en/nominate/nominations.html
― Stevie T, Friday, 13 November 2009 11:08 (sixteen years ago)
I love the art on the Baroness album.
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2009 11:13 (sixteen years ago)
Nice enough to make me want to buy it without hearing a note of it.
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)
It would probably help if you could click on the weeny thumbnails on that site and see the covers in non-weeny thumbnail size, esp considering how many of them are richly coloured and detailed paintings etc
― The Execution Of Garu G (DJ Mencap), Friday, 13 November 2009 11:30 (sixteen years ago)
http://messagetoourfolks.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/shrinebuildercoverfront.jpg
― eskimo kisses, Friday, 13 November 2009 12:57 (sixteen years ago)
Here's a bigger view of 10 of the nominations:
http://flavorwire.com/50276/what-are-the-top-10-vinyl-covers-of-2009
― o. nate, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:17 (sixteen years ago)
That Hours cover looks like some cutout-bin 1992 baggy band. But a famous person did it, so I guess it's good.
― bendy, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)
Of the ones I've heard, Baroness and Fever Ray do the best of aligning with the sounds inside. And actually having good sounds inside.
― bendy, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 23:38 (sixteen years ago)
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9999/realestatej.jpg
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 03:05 (sixteen years ago)
and also
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/9790/00panthaduprincebehindt.jpg
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 03:13 (sixteen years ago)