Noteworthy album covers of 2011

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http://i.imgur.com/PEG9C.jpg

new concept for 2k11 -- you decide whether they are 'good'/'crap' etc

nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:00 (fifteen years ago)

can't say I like that one

twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

kinda cover connections w/ m83

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_twNrgOrZnXQ/TMBLAXvQXeI/AAAAAAAAAlA/MFW5VPmuqWw/s1600/m83saturdays.jpg

nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

'crap' xxp

dirty *plop* (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:09 (fifteen years ago)

well done for combining actually good and bad for next year

modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:21 (fifteen years ago)

i agree

nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

Idea for combination thread, 'good'
Cover, also 'good' (I like everything about it tbh, the border, the text placement, the colors...v nice)

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:40 (fifteen years ago)

do u like the photoshop effects?

nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:42 (fifteen years ago)

The translucent bird? It probably could've been better done, but it was a nice idea.

I like dis one.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TQqkEctxTnI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/ZX8eJLS0kfk/o3211132.jpg

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:44 (fifteen years ago)

2011 - year of birds?

Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/6b19a5c8.jpg

nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

the peej harvey cover is nice but it reminds me of a recent book cover, can't remember which one

congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

Is it...

http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/oh_the_glory_of_it_all_1.large.jpg

Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

pj harvey a bit like 'oversteps', but w/ some squiggly birds and a title

nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

I appreciate how this could've been finalized, but don't like the actual final product.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TQqm1Sz7SMI/AAAAAAAAAOY/6JpM9TE-y0Q/wyeoak.jpg

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

Like, they could've gone in a much more Vaughan Oliver/4AD direction with it, but instead chose to go minimalist with the text...except the typeface is urgly.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:58 (fifteen years ago)

Is it...

http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/oh_the_glory_of_it_all_1.large.jpg

― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:53 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

yesssssss that one plus another one i also can't think

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 17 December 2010 00:02 (fifteen years ago)

This design is exquisite, but also very hard to look at.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TQtWk0cKxqI/AAAAAAAAAOg/q6nV_m4sVfk/s512/toroymoi-underneath-the-pine-cover-art.jpg

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, 17 December 2010 12:25 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.riotseason.com/SHITTERSTEXAS.jpg

still not bored of 'brightly lit colour shot of poetically mundane landscape' type album covers, realise that many may feel differently

Different Geir, Still SBing (DJ Mencap), Friday, 17 December 2010 13:12 (fifteen years ago)

yeah i like it, also like vernac gothic script on records that don't actually sound like burzum

does look like it was taken around march/early april when everything seems green but it's actually not very warm

nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 December 2010 13:15 (fifteen years ago)

I wish it had just a little bit of desaturation or maybe some oversaturation. Something. As it is, it just looks like a photo someone posted on Facebook and someone else dropped some type on.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, 17 December 2010 13:18 (fifteen years ago)

I can't tell if that PJ Harvey cover reminds me more of Wilco or Screamo. Either way, it stinks.

Auto Mall Maniac (kkvgz), Friday, 17 December 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)

xp that new Toro y Moi cover seems to be very controversial among the "indie circles", but personally I love it (esp. that warm colour palette) and do not really understand all the hate it gets

V79, Friday, 17 December 2010 13:34 (fifteen years ago)

I'd like it more w/o the square I think

Peej cover reminded me of lots of Leaf Records artwork, which is done by some dudes called Non-Format who, on investigation, did in fact do the book jacket posted upthread

Different Geir, Still SBing (DJ Mencap), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:05 (fifteen years ago)

that toro y moi cover is rad

kanellos (gbx), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:10 (fifteen years ago)

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TQzDqat4tCI/AAAAAAAAAOo/S2rgcE3HCdQ/asobiseksu.jpg

At first, I was all "what a rip-off!" But it turns out that Vaughan Oliver actually did create this for the band, in which case I say "you're repeating yourself, sir!"

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 18 December 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)

ha wait until you hear the album then, these guys are like a Sealed Knot Society of shoegaze indie

When I Pardew I See Rakes (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 18 December 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

I just listened to it this morning. I really dug their early stuff, but they've lost the plot along the way.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 18 December 2010 15:51 (fifteen years ago)

Sealed Knot Society of shoegaze indie

can't be bothered to change my DN again but just wanna acknowledge this

baubles to the wall (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 December 2010 15:52 (fifteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w6w6Mq5s-AM/TPVwz_7JOoI/AAAAAAAACNY/JsLJu4voG8s/s1600/LFAT_Video_TomTomClub_GeniusOfLove.jpg

smh

When I Pardew I See Rakes (DJ Mencap), Monday, 20 December 2010 14:05 (fifteen years ago)

title made me lol at least

irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 20 December 2010 14:28 (fifteen years ago)

everybody knows that the mid-90s cheaply-done bootleg CD look is a good one.

Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 December 2010 14:29 (fifteen years ago)

I wish it had just a little bit of desaturation or maybe some oversaturation. Something. As it is, it just looks like a photo someone posted on Facebook and someone else dropped some type on.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, December 17, 2010 9:18 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

yeah but it becomes awesome by virtue of someone framing it onto a CD - r. mutt etc.

dayo, Monday, 20 December 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_etS1LYCvhYo/TQUSj2lq05I/AAAAAAAAAoI/Q6W1lnlxjwA/s400/Computers_and_Blues_Cover.jpg

like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Monday, 20 December 2010 14:43 (fifteen years ago)

Would love to see the messy results of that lighter being sparked

o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

At first, I was all "what a rip-off!" But it turns out that Vaughan Oliver actually did create this for the band, in which case I say "you're repeating yourself, sir!"

i like the asobi seksu cover but it SCREAMS early 90s pale saints, lush, his name is alive, etc. + anything 4AD (which is precisely why it succeeds)

i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:19 (fifteen years ago)

does even the streets care about the streets anymore?

irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)

I must confess the PJ Harvey first brought to mind:
http://i40.tinypic.com/315l7ar.jpg

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:18 (fifteen years ago)

http://cdn.nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/KRSCover-450x450.jpg

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:54 (fifteen years ago)

show having second thoughts abt the whole enterprise

zvookster, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

egad

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:03 (fifteen years ago)

The Toro y Moi is awesome, sexy and Cronenberg's The Fly at once. That tangerine or whatever that is looks like totally hot gross guy eating some poor live aquatic thing, it's disturbing. And those colors!

Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

the asobi cover is totally phoned in, it's sad when a great designer does something that looks like a parody of their own work

shart to the *plop* (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:06 (fifteen years ago)

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TSNR1k9t-KI/AAAAAAAAAP8/RzmCGm4llQ0/pienfeith-danceontime.jpg

Dr. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:59 (fifteen years ago)

itt: ppl defacing their own chillwave/deburghwave covers with mspaint scribbles

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

w dance on

irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:16 (fifteen years ago)

that toro cover freaks me out. ew.

but it could have happened when i was playing tesla (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:17 (fifteen years ago)

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TSn8z8XSCOI/AAAAAAAAARU/pUnHqSlviS4/s512/LLAlbumCover.jpg

This might be slightly overdistressed, but I still dig the feel of it.

Dr. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 9 January 2011 18:23 (fifteen years ago)

Is that Streets cover a photo of the Zigguart halls of residence at the UEA?

Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 9 January 2011 18:32 (fifteen years ago)

Hate the Toro y Moi.

Like this one:

http://www.ssgmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Cut-Copy-album-cover.jpg

monster_xero, Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

Any experts able to identify the font on the Islands cover 20 posts back?

I am using your worlds, Saturday, 29 October 2011 07:17 (fourteen years ago)

xp ShariVari you from Poland?

V79, Saturday, 29 October 2011 08:13 (fourteen years ago)

No, i'm from London but i try to keep an eye on what's happening with Polish music and visit at least once a year.

Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, 29 October 2011 09:38 (fourteen years ago)

Any experts able to identify the font on the Islands cover 20 posts back?

Looks like a variant of Gotham, which is pretty ubiquitous on movie posters these days. But the weight seems off a bit, I dunno.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 29 October 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost re: Soulja Boy

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flammarion.jpg/288px-Flammarion.jpg

Wikipedia: Flammarion engraving

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 29 October 2011 18:11 (fourteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41m-jSz2m6L._SS500_.jpg

leviathan - true traitor true whore

difficult to adjust to ilxor being a low frequency poster (ilxor), Saturday, 29 October 2011 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

freaking me the fuck out
http://pictures.cdconnection.com/covers/1577510.jpg

billstevejim, Monday, 31 October 2011 08:28 (fourteen years ago)

bill what is that?

last two equal awesome. sometimes i wish i paid attention to metal.

a hoy hoy, Monday, 31 October 2011 11:35 (fourteen years ago)

the fake ringwear on the Steel Panther album cover is dope imo

Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 31 October 2011 14:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Giant-Claw-Tunnel-Mind-cover-500x500.jpg

Giant Claw- Tunnel Mind

mizzell, Monday, 31 October 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

leviathan cover is pretty cool but i can't help but think they were like "oh shit we forgot to make a cover ... i know, i'll just photocopy my hand"

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 31 October 2011 16:12 (fourteen years ago)

oh dear

http://www.popjustice.com/images/stories/j/wantedbattlegroundartwork.jpg

owenf, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 11:38 (fourteen years ago)

those guys would get slaughtered on a battleground. no armour, no weapons, looking a bit hungover and like they may have crossed swords the previous night and don't wanna talk about it.

a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 12:36 (fourteen years ago)

http://vinylrecordings.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/graveyard-hisingen-blues-cover-front.jpg

mizzell, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

I like that. Even decided to give it a listen on Spotify and I like that too.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

I've tried going into the image with the cathedral but the website's telling me it's a Susan Boyle album. What cover art is freaking Bill out?

Conan The Asshander (Doran), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41m-jSz2m6L._SS500_.jpg

cover connection with:

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/albums/16941/cover-homepage_large.jpg

DJ Smoove Groothe (staggerlee), Thursday, 3 November 2011 05:47 (fourteen years ago)

Graveyard totally rocking the Alan Aldridge / Kit Williams / fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me vision

bendy, Thursday, 3 November 2011 12:23 (fourteen years ago)

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drl800/l854/l85457ux30i.jpg

rockapads, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

(cover connection)

rockapads, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/Carrion_Crawler_X_The_Dream.jpg
Thee Oh Sees- Carrion Crawler / The Dream

mizzell, Thursday, 3 November 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

album i should get around to

a hoy hoy, Friday, 4 November 2011 18:19 (fourteen years ago)

Just a single, but yeah...this is great.

http://i.imgur.com/U1rLW.jpg

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 November 2011 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

Wow that is cool

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 November 2011 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

yeah

The Reverend, Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:57 (fourteen years ago)

It would look great mural-size on a huge warehouse wall somewhere

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 November 2011 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

Or in my house

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 November 2011 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.showtimehiphop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Nacho-Picasso-For-The-Glory2011.jpg

rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 12:01 (fourteen years ago)

What's up with the gargoyle clutching his nads?

Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 12:03 (fourteen years ago)

that's just one of many questions raised by that cover.

good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 12:12 (fourteen years ago)

Good lord

Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 12:44 (fourteen years ago)

damn, it's like Frank Frazetta drew an R Crumb

Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 13:18 (fourteen years ago)

WTF

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 15:10 (fourteen years ago)

A MASTERPIECE

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 15:39 (fourteen years ago)

lol

cannibal adderley (The Reverend), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 23:08 (fourteen years ago)

I see they had silicone implants already in the Middle Ages.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:23 (fourteen years ago)

Steve Hauschildt's new album

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-3220498-1321045198.jpeg

van smack, Sunday, 13 November 2011 19:46 (fourteen years ago)

doooooooooope

fauxmarc loi (The Reverend), Monday, 14 November 2011 09:42 (fourteen years ago)

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~ruins/img/flyer/release/d_mgc39cover.jpg

cock chirea, Monday, 14 November 2011 10:29 (fourteen years ago)

Is that the Japanese version? The Skin Graft is slightly different.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 14 November 2011 11:16 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, that's the jap/european version. the one on skin graft is a little less goofier tho

http://www.skingraftrecords.com/graphics/biglppics/GR100big.jpg

cock chirea, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:25 (fourteen years ago)

Imbogodom - "And They Turned Not When They Went"

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu358/The405_photo/Newness/AndTheyTurnedNotWhenTheyWent-1.jpg

She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:35 (fourteen years ago)

that is horrible

GOIT BUZZ TOYS (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 17 November 2011 04:03 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.musicshop.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/265x265/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/M/M/MMCD036.jpg

I get that his brand of techno can be described as muscular but this is too much.

"only girl in the kitchen" (boxedjoy), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:54 (fourteen years ago)

haha what does that cover have to do with 'muscular'

rockapads, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:09 (fourteen years ago)

It looks to me like he's trying to show off as he looks into the light, "look at my bicep".

"only girl in the kitchen" (boxedjoy), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:42 (fourteen years ago)

uh, if you say so.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/mannequinmendisc.jpg

mizzell, Friday, 18 November 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

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ilxor, Monday, 2 January 2012 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

rip 2k11 rip isolée

The Triumph of the Will High (nakhchivan), Monday, 2 January 2012 21:44 (fourteen years ago)


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