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Actually good album covers/avatars of 2010

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http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/ff452.jpg

― Body Butter (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 17 January 2010 11:24 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.muzzleofbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Contra.jpg

― dreamsonvhs, Sunday, 17 January 2010 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

suggest ban

― i ben b bag all by myself (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 17 January 2010 19:02 (sixteen years ago)

http://web6.twitpic.com/img/58690761-7994fe99cfc1b041f378edab4f7b81b5.4b57367b-scaled.jpg

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:00 (sixteen years ago)

(that's ikonika's forthcoming album contact, love, want, have)

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:01 (sixteen years ago)

http://stereogum.com/img/extra-life-made-flesh-aa.jpg

Absolutely awful album, though.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:04 (sixteen years ago)

I heard that Extra Life were pretty good? I gave some tracks from Secular Works a go and they were great!

― your favorite toy dinosaur ruined my asshole (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

I'm so over heavy/math-y rock and have been for years, so I'm not the target audience for it. I find it hard to believe anyone could bear listening to those vocals, though.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

I was repping for the Extra Life album on here yesterday I think - I am super impressed by it on first play and the vox didn't strike me as objectively more offputting than other dealbreakers of our time (Antony/Newsom/Dirty Projectors guy etc) who enough people think sound great

― i swear on my life i feel so powerfull (musically) (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:32 (sixteen years ago)

what's that first cover up there?

― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

bah the ikonika cover has disappeared - bloody twitpic. here it is again

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ikonika-sleeve-32838.jpg

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

Love Extra Life, love that cover, haven't heard it yet.

The guy who made the Heartland cover also makes outstanding music as Wyrd Visions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZQAiDp3LXs

― Megadeth Panel (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Caribou_Swim_cover_art_hi-res.jpg

loving circles in 2kx

― dumb mack maine follows (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 09:59 (sixteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BCvDFD5YBIM/S13OazOVcsI/AAAAAAAAACM/2iFgOpSAcfE/s1600-h/slices-front-LP.jpg

NB this band play sludgy obnoxious blown out hardcore

― Dean GAPDY (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

( http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BCvDFD5YBIM/S13OazOVcsI/AAAAAAAAACM/2iFgOpSAcfE/s1600-h/slices-front-LP.jpg if you can't see it cos I currently can't)

― Dean GAPDY (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

http://whatimg.com/images/83448248302193024437.jpg

― guammls (QE II), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/0d2a3cf89d6a2b29f219e081d16485de/2666063.jpg

― guammls (QE II), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:58 (sixteen years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/pumps452growing.jpg

― mizzell, Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.planet-mu.com/image/discography/ZIQ255_Ceephax.jpg

― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:45 (sixteen years ago)

that didn't work :(

it's this but big

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/a61d53863d19d2981a6996ebdfca379d/2515993.jpg

http://www.planet-mu.com/image/discography/ZIQ255_Ceephax.jpg

― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

what's that first cover up there?

― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 18:38 (2 weeks ago)

Final Fantasy - Heartland

― Moka, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 21:23 (sixteen years ago)

http://indymusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/heligoland-cvr.jpg

― Moka, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

http://pablobolivar.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/sacrifice-of-love-cover.jpg

― Moka, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

Roll the Dice - s/t

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/images/RTD-lrg.jpg

― Moka, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 21:36 (sixteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iT3KKzUhdSc/R6weiFwKZ4I/AAAAAAAAAjw/HanzdaQiXzo/s400/l.jpeg

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 21:55 (sixteen years ago)

someone pls photoshop burrito baby onto morrissey "swords" cover art

― guammls (QE II), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

i know it's me shamefully promoting my band but i think the cover art is rad
http://sharkmatter.net/Chum%20Bucket/Chum_Bucket_cover.png

― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 23:52 (sixteen years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/lali.jpg

― Moka, Saturday, 13 February 2010 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

"burrito baby" tee hee

― lukevalentine, Monday, 15 February 2010 05:35 (sixteen years ago)

WHOA that Lali Puna cover is pretty classic

― Use a computer to superimpose your head over that of Bronson Pinchot (Stevie D), Monday, 15 February 2010 06:18 (sixteen years ago)

More circles...

http://991.com/newGallery/Four-Tet-There-Is-Love-In-494433.jpg

― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 February 2010 07:54 (sixteen years ago)

I quite like the Gonjasufi cover but it will piss lots of ppl off in the same way as the last Black Lips album

― Originoo Golf Clappaz (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 February 2010 09:46 (sixteen years ago)

apparently non-shopped: http://i46.tinypic.com/25fru37.jpg

― wilter, Monday, 15 February 2010 12:17 (sixteen years ago)

I don't see why the black lips and gonjasufi covers would piss off people, i think they're both great. Warp label seem fixed on the black and white aesthetic this year.

http://media.warp.net/images/WARPCD210_Packshot_RGB_480.jpg
http://media.warp.net/images/WARPCD192_Packshot_480.jpg

― Moka, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:40 (sixteen years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/mgmtcover452.jpg

also going to have a scratch card cover!

all these warp ones are a+

― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 18 February 2010 09:24 (sixteen years ago)

Whoa, that last one is really great!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 18 February 2010 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

if you like that tuomas check out the artist's website

http://www.ausgangart.com/

― victim of a vicious puma (electricsound), Thursday, 18 February 2010 09:46 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/february/record-sleeves-of-the-month

― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 20 February 2010 11:48 (sixteen years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/wu.jpg

+ tracy morgan's on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:23 (sixteen years ago)

Mako Sica: Dual Horizon

http://www.la-soc.com/images/dual_horizon_wb.jpg

― winnebago taco, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:32 (sixteen years ago)

That last one's like an orange version of Don Cab's What Burns Never Returns.

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:08 (sixteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61BMmsL5QSL._SS400_.jpg

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:15 (sixteen years ago)

is that chris bachalo artwork on the wu album?

― m the g, Sunday, 7 March 2010 01:41 (sixteen years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/sightings452.jpg
Sightings "City of Straw"

― Trip Maker, Sunday, 7 March 2010 05:20 (sixteen years ago)

http://ubiquityjp.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ur264_72.jpg

― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:04 (sixteen years ago)

I've seen this one too, which I actually like more...

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/muldrow.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:15 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah she's got at least three. I love that. I also love this:
http://cdn.stereogum.com/img/ted-leo-brutalist-bricks-aa.jpg

― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:16 (sixteen years ago)

hmm. two of these have been good so far

― lukevalentine, Sunday, 7 March 2010 18:40 (sixteen years ago)

^um, yeah, OK. Up the standard, then, buddy.

Me like:

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/284/117/624/11762408/300x300.jpg

― Armchair Crab (staggerlee), Sunday, 7 March 2010 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

Love the Darkstar tunes, and the cover sends me the same signals as the early Billy Bragg covers-

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PEtdJDa0s6A/R308w8i3zAI/AAAAAAAAAHo/9IW4jpCZ2cw/s320/riot.jpg

British municipal signage, etc. Given the Human League cover version, I wonder if there's some inspiration from this going on too

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GQtuh1Q_luQ/SNnVIWu38BI/AAAAAAAADDA/DbhYBHhlSrk/s400/The+Future+and+The+Human+League+-.jpg

― bendy, Monday, 25 October 2010 12:15 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/pub/Editionsmego/CataloguePage/coverversion.jpg
does it look like i'm here
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2010/02/eclipses_cover.jpg
eclipses - robert a a lowe/rose lazaar

the latter opens out into a big poster and it is very nice

― jumpskins, Monday, 25 October 2010 12:39 (fifteen years ago)

the above looks kind of like if a 4 year old painted the cover of ovalcommers. in a good way.

― straightola, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:36 (fifteen years ago)

The Emeralds one looks spookily like an out-take from the inside photos off Verve's A Storm In Heaven. But I guess that does rather go with their aesthetic.

― Wheal Dream, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:43 (fifteen years ago)

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2010/08/Balam-Acab-See-Birds-EP.jpg

― The Flamoboyant Magic of Gunter and Ernst (EDB), Thursday, 28 October 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

That's: Balam Acab - See Birds EP by the way.

― The Flamoboyant Magic of Gunter and Ernst (EDB), Thursday, 28 October 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

hmm idk

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/cutcopy_.jpg

― sock lobster (blueski), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

the polaroid trend is driving me fucking insane.

― time for a chimmy changa run (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 16:53 (fifteen years ago)

something tells me that's not an actual Polaroid, kelpolaris

― Joy Orbison wrapped in clingfilm (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

^ wasn't a response to the above, but thanks for your deduction skills.

― time for a chimmy changa run (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 17:43 (fifteen years ago)

I like that Cut Copy cover.

― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 17:44 (fifteen years ago)

The Emerald's one is fucking great, but maybe b/c it just gives me Poltergeist vibes.

― time for a chimmy changa run (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 18:07 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/brian-eno-small-craft-on-a-milk-sea-546x546.jpg

eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea

― so imagen what we can do with the rest of our brain...right buddy's?? (Pillbox), Thursday, 4 November 2010 05:58 (fifteen years ago)

just crazy boring imo, like that last U2 album

― sock lobster (blueski), Thursday, 4 November 2010 12:09 (fifteen years ago)

cut copy cover image done by same dude who did midnight oil 'red sails in the sunset'

― disco stfu (electricsound), Thursday, 4 November 2010 12:11 (fifteen years ago)

it's not a shop (i can tell from the lack of pixels etc)

― disco stfu (electricsound), Thursday, 4 November 2010 12:12 (fifteen years ago)

"It was recorded in Melbourne and features artwork by the late Japanese photomontage artist Tsunehisa Kimura."

― koogs, Thursday, 4 November 2010 12:44 (fifteen years ago)

better albums were recorded in melbourne this year, but they probably don't have covers that cost as much to license

― disco stfu (electricsound), Thursday, 4 November 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)

Original image:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V7oom18FXF4/TEgjL3mbn4I/AAAAAAAABOw/67DRnaEtEsg/s640/TsunehisaKumura.jpg

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 5 November 2010 01:26 (fifteen years ago)

great album cover. unfortunately, if the first single is representative, not such a great album.

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 5 November 2010 01:29 (fifteen years ago)

Not to get all pedantic, but that Cut/Copy one probably belongs in next year's thread. I do like the cover though.

― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 November 2010 02:48 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.twitteringmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sculpture-a-side.jpg

video of this thing spinning...
http://vimeo.com/9220247

neato.

― original bgm, Thursday, 18 November 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

Fond of the cover of the Alva Noto/Blixa Bargeld joint Mimikry:

http://www.neubauten.org/images/releases/solo/anbb_mimikry.jpg

― Sanpaku, Monday, 22 November 2010 15:36 (fifteen years ago)

Slipknot have fallen on hard times.

― Neil S, Sunday, 28 November 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

Is there a new Grace Jones record already?

― wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:49 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I was wondering about that too.

― Tuomas, Monday, 29 November 2010 10:26 (fifteen years ago)

Jammer photo is good but still feel no type is a copout

― Noel 1 Kanye 10.0 (blueski), Monday, 29 November 2010 13:14 (fifteen years ago)

It's a limited edition vinyl pressing of Hurricane.

― Moka, Monday, 29 November 2010 16:50 (fifteen years ago)

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4937/r25220331289624271.jpg

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/7735/r25220331289624281.jpg

really nice uncoated stock, too. not feeling the type on the cover, though.

― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 4 December 2010 17:39 (fifteen years ago)

yea thats awesome

― lube fiasco (diamonddave85), Saturday, 4 December 2010 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/vRD1f.jpg

― nakhtar donetsk (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 01:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://files.list.co.uk/images/2010/11/24/sound-of-siam-cmyk-print-only-LST080641.jpg

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 8 December 2010 01:43 (fifteen years ago)

Messenger Girls Trio
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_osaKxjJ33dE/S_1_40DU-mI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/hJe6lSI1IjA/s1600/CS385750-01A-BIG.jpg

― Bjorn Cyborg (van smack), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 01:46 (fifteen years ago)

'siam' looks kinda mesoamerican

― nakhtar donetsk (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

Imaginary Softwoods looks like someone's rejected idea for a Disco Inferno cover.

― mini-skirt and gogol books (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 03:41 (fifteen years ago)

new Parts & Labor is badass

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/parts.jpg

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

new Parts & Labor is badass

yup

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:04 (fifteen years ago)

waiting for whiney's tweet capsule review tbh

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:15 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:09 (fifteen years ago)

looks like really good gcse art coursework

― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

ud? fu

― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:14 (fifteen years ago)

what is it?

― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:18 (fifteen years ago)

autre ne veut - s/t

― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:19 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.mbvmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tamaryn-the-waves-cover-art.jpg

Tamaryn - Waves very fine L.A. shoegaze (though not exactly reinventing the genre) with a smoky near-Siouxsie alto vocalist.

― Beware the radical metrosexual agenda (Sanpaku), Friday, 24 December 2010 16:56 (fifteen years ago)

one more before the year is up

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tfvcUyu0VpM/TQJhnGZzBbI/AAAAAAAABaM/TofovibxbmE/s1600/Primitive%2BNeural%2BPathways.jpg

― van smack, Friday, 31 December 2010 03:07 (fifteen years ago)

My favorite from 2010, Demdike Stare. They're getting quite a visual style going

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2641931-1294593145.jpeg

― bendy, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 12:21 (fifteen years ago)

My favorite from 2010, Demdike Stare. They're getting quite a visual style going

agreed.
they're all done by andy votel aren't they ?

― mark e, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 12:22 (fifteen years ago)

artvinyl list has the klaxons as #1 in their list for 2010 (which i posted above, half jokingly)

http://www.artvinyl.com/en/nominate/nominations.html

rest of their choices are pretty terrible.

― koogs, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 13:00 (fifteen years ago)


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