Noteworthy album covers of 2013

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I know, it's still December, but this is a 2013 release:

http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/clutch-earth-rocker.jpg

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago)

thx for the not hueg opening cover.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago)

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

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago)

Like that one a lot too!

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago)

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf6t8dCQgL1qdivgo.jpg

― epic album: the pluto (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago)

lol is that the real cover?

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago)

its the comedy central poster anyway

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago)

real cover. might be the dopest comedy album cover i've ever seen

― epic album: the pluto (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago)

down w/all three of these so far. 2013 lookin good.

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago)

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/tracks/14676/homepage_large.bec675b0.jpg

this is a single and possibly available to buy now but fukkit it looks great and has 'a reference' to 'get'

― Sounds like something Maria Carey would of rejected (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 10:41 (twelve years ago)

That's fantastic! I hadn't seen that.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago)

jeselnik cover and album name a+++

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago)

I would listen to any album with that cover and especially any album with that cover AND title. Thankfully I'm already a bit familiar with Jeselnik and yeah, he's funny.

― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Amh8f.jpg

Wave Machines, Pollen

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 December 2012 07:17 (twelve years ago)

That gives me a headache

― Walter Galt, Friday, 21 December 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago)

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

I'd freak out during this photoshoot from having my airways covered up.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 22 December 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago)

that really would be the worst way to die too, posing for the hideous cover of a new Bettie Serveert album

― nobody's bitch speaks again (some dude), Saturday, 22 December 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago)

http://i48.tinypic.com/3091qjd.jpg
Gazelle Twin - Mammal EP

Honestly I wouldn't have minded another Suzanne Moxhay photocollage as on The Entire City, as Moxhay has a lot of stunning work, but this is good.

― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Saturday, 22 December 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/nxV3H.jpg

Beach Fossils - Clash the Truth

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago)

Beanie Sigel The Truth

― finally rich, fun-packed, fulfilling (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/48509/bcd83c1c.jpg

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago)

http://www.epitaph.com/dispatch/_depot/title/large/357b06e5b653d966f9d0465385090612.jpg

This is the first BR cover art in a million years to look like a BR cover should look.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 December 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago)

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/29/59/2959837380-1.jpg

My illustration! My cat! My handtype!

http://theepoch.bandcamp.com/album/the-epoch-is-now-volume-2

― Guy was knee-deep in water (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 16:49 (twelve years ago)

no idea if this link will work

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:05 (twelve years ago)

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

La Big Vic - Cold War

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:55 (twelve years ago)

I like that one. I have no use for the band but that's pretty great.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 7 January 2013 14:59 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I wish they were better, because they have two pretty special album covers so far.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 January 2013 15:00 (twelve years ago)

Know nothing of the band, but would probably buy any thrift-store paperback Sci-Fi novel that had that as a cover.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Monday, 7 January 2013 15:02 (twelve years ago)

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/indie/danfriel-totalfolklore.jpg
Dan Friel- Total Folklore

― mizzell, Monday, 7 January 2013 18:09 (twelve years ago)

http://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Action-Bronson-Rare-Chandeliers-gif.gif

― tsrobodo, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:13 (twelve years ago)

http://www.mountaain.com/threeleggedrace/sp022-500i.jpg

― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:31 (twelve years ago)

i know it's supposed to be parodying some kind of blaxploitation trope but that action bronson cover is pretty much exactly the bobby digital in stereo cover.

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:06 (twelve years ago)

didn't that Three Legged Race album come out in December?

not nitpicking, just trying to figure out if it's eligible for my 2013 list. i thought it was scheduled for early December but now all of a sudden, i'm seeing reviews (including p4k's)

― alpine static, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 05:25 (twelve years ago)

Yeah it definitely came out in 2012, it was on Spotify last month.

― Vote in the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 11:06 (twelve years ago)

I'm a huge fan of the typesetting on the Broadcast LP. Though the right aligned but centre placement is something that normally drives me crazy.

― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 03:13 (twelve years ago)

Here's some of Julian House's takes on the Berberian Sound Studio artwork. http://festivalvanguard.blogspot.com/2012/09/alternate-posters-for-berberian-sound.html

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 03:18 (twelve years ago)

alternate takes, I should say.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 03:18 (twelve years ago)

I'm a huge fan of the typesetting on the Broadcast LP. Though the right aligned but centre placement is something that normally drives me crazy.

huh?

the first cover itt has quite a Barney Bubbles vibe.

― wk, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 04:46 (twelve years ago)

not really sure what this sounds like but i like the windam hill vibe

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

― big fat dictionary (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 05:39 (twelve years ago)

http://www.guitarworld.com/files/imce-images/bowie_next.jpg

― lol cassidy fan club (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 10 January 2013 20:27 (twelve years ago)

so very ugly

― the drawl of the mc's could be farts (NickB), Thursday, 10 January 2013 20:28 (twelve years ago)

I dunno, I kinda like it.

― said the brohaim to the cochise (how's life), Thursday, 10 January 2013 23:04 (twelve years ago)

Looks like he's just stuck the title over that Cex album cover (jk.)

― contrarian, zing thyself (cajunsunday), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:18 (twelve years ago)

Only January and I think we've found the most wtf cover of 2013.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/indie/yeah-yeah-yeahs-mosquito.jpg

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 14 January 2013 17:07 (twelve years ago)

they spelled "Primus" wrong.

― how's life, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:22 (twelve years ago)

La Big Vic - Cold War
― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 7, 2013 6:55 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I like that one. I have no use for the band but that's pretty great.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, January 7, 2013 6:59 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I wish they were better, because they have two pretty special album covers so far.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 7, 2013 7:00 AM (1 week ago)

They are named for an ilx0r if you can believe that.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:04 (twelve years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_r2QpqEEKpg/ULZvqv2Bt2I/AAAAAAAACzY/TaxGojRA0ik/s400/cover.png

― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 14:24 (twelve years ago)

what a dramatic way to die

― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 14:27 (twelve years ago)

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/31/65/3165155548-1.jpg

― anonanon, Saturday, 26 January 2013 16:27 (twelve years ago)

What is it? Is it the sequel to the Nine Inch Nails giant hand album?

― fuck off like a diamond (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 27 January 2013 06:56 (twelve years ago)

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LONNIE HOLLEY I'VE GOT MY OWN ALBUM TO DO

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 05:38 (eleven years ago)

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nondrowsy-cover-500x500.jpg

Physical Therapy - Non-Drowsy EP

― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 07:29 (eleven years ago)

http://cdn.pigeonsandplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/parquetcourts.jpg

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 08:02 (eleven years ago)

metal bands have the best graphics.

― davey, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 09:05 (eleven years ago)

oh man does that parkay quarts cover makes me want to avoid listening to it.

― davey, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 09:05 (eleven years ago)

and frequently the worst too xp

― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 09:06 (eleven years ago)

*make

here's the new axel boman record. why is gauche 3d cover art hip this year? everything old is new again and that's great but... it's also fugly. the music on this record's actually pretty good...

http://musicis4lovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/artworks-000058441527-tvhhpr-t500x500.jpg

― davey, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 09:12 (eleven years ago)

and frequently the worst too xp

haha, good point. =)

― davey, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 09:13 (eleven years ago)

like the parkay quarts! looks exactly like they sound.

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 09:34 (eleven years ago)

somewhere between early fall and early pavement then?

― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 09:56 (eleven years ago)

When I interviewed them they stressed how much they hate being compared to both those bands lol

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 12:09 (eleven years ago)

Great job of asserting some aesthetic distance there guys

― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 12:19 (eleven years ago)

That's hilarious. We HATE being compared to the two bands who we sound the most like and whose entire visual aesthetic we draw from!

― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago)

somewhere between early fall and early pavement then?

― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:56 AM (7 hours ago)

close enough

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago)

http://cdn2.thelineofbestfit.com/media/2013/10/Future-Of-The-Left-How-To-Stop-Your-Brain-In-An-Accident-500x500.jpg

― Mordy , Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago)

would like to think that the one in the bottom left corner is "no dean blunt records"

― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago)

http://esg6rzdhdg9i115s.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/r-kelly-black-panties-500.jpg

― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago)

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/deon-kallisti-102413.png

― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Friday, 22 November 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago)

http://www.33-45.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/original_DeMeester_si_01.jpg

― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago)

Andy Votel is easy, I know, but damn

― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago)

http://www.hotcuprecords.com/images/c400_slippery_rock.jpg
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Slippery Rock!

― ernestp, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago)

http://www.bestartvinyl.com/vote.html?nc=1385468989

Might be wrong about this, but I've noticed since vinyl sales have picked up that big, busy, slightly-psychedelic album art seems to also be making a resurgence. There must be a difference for artworkers when creating something for vinyl or CD markets?

― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago)

it's like, if i'm going to shell out for something on vinyl, and i'm trying to pick between two albums but can't decide, often it's the artwork that's the deal maker.

― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago)

Ras G is the best one there, love that cover

― space bl00ps (NickB), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago)

This came out months ago and everyone has probably already seen it, but I love this

http://cdn.rap-up.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fantasia-side-effects-cover.jpg

― including 'weird men' who fancy the mermaids (soref), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago)

Back cover:

http://christalrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/back-of-fantasias-side-effects-of-you-album-christal_rock.jpg

― including 'weird men' who fancy the mermaids (soref), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:13 (eleven years ago)

http://nme.assets.ipccdn.co.uk/images/gallery/2013GeorgePringle_GolfoDeiPoeti_600G190413.jpg

George Pringle- Golfo Dei Poeti

― including 'weird men' who fancy the mermaids (soref), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago)

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0161/8690/products/DING-DONG-DISQUESweb_grande.jpg?v=1383427113

― including 'weird men' who fancy the mermaids (soref), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago)

george pringle one is awesome-- what's it sound like?

― 乓乒 (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:56 (eleven years ago)

There's a Quietus review here-
http://thequietus.com/articles/11621-george-pringle-gulfo-dei-poeti-review

― including 'weird men' who fancy the mermaids (soref), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago)

― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 7:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's like, if i'm going to shell out for something on vinyl, and i'm trying to pick between two albums but can't decide, often it's the artwork that's the deal maker.

― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 7:56 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmmm, I dunno how true it is (there could be lots of other reasons for the popularity of psychedelic imagery right now) but I could almost imagine that simply seeing more things on vinyl might encourage an artist to imagine their work in that nice large format, and go ahead and include details that they might otherwise not have. But then I think that the worst era for album art was probably the height of the CD years. Even stuff that I imagine doesn't sell that much on vinyl has been looking a lot better lately (big pop albums and stuff).

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago)

bring back longboxes imo

http://i.imgur.com/NuSC4zr.jpg

― 乓乒 (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago)

I had all but two of those (Cure and Smiths) cut out and taped to my door in high school.

― joygoat, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago)

http://nnatapes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/NNA069.jpg

― My god. Pure ideology. (ey), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago)

kewl

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago)

a nice festive one for you:

http://www.erasuresnowglobe.com/img/erasure-snowglobe-album.jpg

― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:06 (eleven years ago)

Can't remember whether it was posted or not but shittiest cover of the year is... Cut Copy?

― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago)

gotta be black flag

― i have sounded the very dub step of humility (anonanon), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, Black Flag and then Cut Copy.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago)

oh how could i forget the flag?

― exciting vampire castle (NickB), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago)

Bleed the patriarchy

http://i4.sndcdn.com/artworks-000058227456-wwwq40-t500x500.jpg?b09b136

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 December 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago)

http://gp1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/802892/production_public/Album/23443/album_image/e10acafa67d52fec117725b29b4da475f109a00a.jpg

― rp boo bryson (NickB), Monday, 9 December 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago)

FACT did their best and worst lists btw:

http://www.factmag.com/2013/12/07/the-30-best-album-covers-of-2013/
http://www.factmag.com/2013/12/07/the-30-worst-album-covers-of-2013/

― rp boo bryson (NickB), Monday, 9 December 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago)

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0164/9352/products/spin050_Vastum_COVweb_1024x1024.jpg

^ can't stop looking at that bat

― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago)

feel like i wanna wave back

― rp boo bryson (NickB), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago)

meant to add the vastum cover the other day, but forgot. so great! was bummed by the comparatively dull imagery on the vinyl version, but turns out it has a poster of that ghastly thing inside (uncropped art, no text).

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago)

the artist, paolo girardi, also did the covers for this year's power trip and inquisition albums (among a ton of other stuff, busy dude). think i might have posted the former somewhere way upthread...

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago)

man, FACT's best 30 are almost as bad as their worst 30. baffling choices, most of them.

― alpine static, Sunday, 22 December 2013 06:04 (eleven years ago)

fact sure doesnt like r&b/hip hop

― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Sunday, 22 December 2013 06:33 (eleven years ago)

eleven months pass...

For those of you who liked the Deafheaven cover.

http://pitchfork.com/news/57800-deafheaven-selling-sunbather-font/

― how's life, Friday, 12 December 2014 14:08 (ten years ago)

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