Actually good album covers/avatars of 2010

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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 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

Roll the Dice - s/t

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

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

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

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

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

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

"burrito baby" tee hee

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

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

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

Whoa, that last one is really great!

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

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

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

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

Mako Sica: Dual Horizon

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

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

is that chris bachalo artwork on the wu album?

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

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

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

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

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

hmm. two of these have been good so far

lukevalentine, Sunday, 7 March 2010 18:40 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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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