Noteworthy album covers of 2015

http://i.imgur.com/DknHSk1.jpg

Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love

http://i.imgur.com/mqHTqz0.jpg

Chromatics - Dear Tommy

http://i.imgur.com/Wqn6pQG.jpg

THEESatisfaction - EarthEE

I kinda like that this looks like someone painted a version of an existing cover
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bp/complete-strangers-lp.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/couldyoudefine/ScreenShot2014-12-11at115625AM_zpsbbb88d11.png

2015 off to a great start imo.

<3 that chromatics cover

me too^^

major 70s vibe from the chromatics and the moon duo covers. chromatics looks like a lost tangerine dream cover

http://www.halocline-trance.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Transfer.jpg

reposted from the tail end of the 2014 thread; Egyptrixx- Transfer of Energy (Feelings of Power)

Basically, fuck Lupe Fiasco at this point, but I dig this sleeve.

http://i.imgur.com/xK6O4NR.jpg

DECEMBERISTS:
http://i.imgur.com/5cIHONr.jpg

Pandy Bear cover is cool too

http://i.imgur.com/2jWudPZ.jpg

Reminds me of Sol LeWitt!

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2613991730_10.jpg
William Ryan Fritch: Revisionist

http://www.scdistribution.com/resources/doc099.jpg
A Place to Bury Strangers: Transfixiation

http://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ericchenaux-skullsplitter.jpg
Eric Chenaux: Skullsplitter

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3185810100_10.jpg
of Montreal: Aureate Gloom

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91eUNDEycnL._SL1500_.jpg
Dan Deacon: Gliss Riffer

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4Go8fhCYAAp8ag.jpg
Leviathan: Scar Sighted

This last batch is really appealing.

I'd by the first three and the Leviathan just based on the covers, even if I didn't know anything about them. Actually I don't know Fritch or Chenaux at all, hope they live up to their visuals.

http://i.imgur.com/3OWz4IX.jpg

Rémi Parson - Précipitations

Not really that similar but I'm getting a slight Preservation Records vibe from that last one.

This has been done to death but:

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2045871763_10.jpg
Pneu: Destination Qualité

with the exception of the eric chenaux cover almost all of these are really awesome.

can't say i like the sleater-kinney or egyptrixx covers though.

the pneu has definitely been done to death but i still dig it

earthee cover is amazing

Not gonna post it in here but I think Napalm Death have already won the 2015 metal album cover sweepstakes

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

Len Sander - Phantom Garden

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0059460201_10.jpg

haha what

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
http://westernvinyl.com/pr/images/WV130LP.1500.jpg

I really like her covers. Her photos are even pretty cool. Not digging the music so far though.

https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/screen-shot-2015-01-20-at-1-39-39-pm.png

We've not had the Björk cover in here yet. I really like it, especially the 'open heart' which also looks like a vulva. But those legs... So stiff and straight, with a big thigh gap.

oh jesus

omar s does it again

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2015/aos928-omars.jpg

https://whatimg.com/i/Tr0eBk.jpg

xpost: kind of a cover connection with the leviathan cover (and to a lesser extent, the bjork cover - which is just inviting a world of videodrome analogies) upthread.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/826/MI0003826854.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2621700183_2.jpg

Disembodies arms/hands are totally overdone, but I really like the treatment on this one

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

https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/lapalux-closure.jpg
Lapalux: Lustmore

https://eu.rymimg.com/lk/o/l/f266ee91764c6d85f2f93ea5196dc0c3/5573549.jpg
Other Lives: Rituals

http://imageprocessor.websimages.com/width/446/crop/0,0,446x446/www.sirrichardbishop.net/dc618cover_01.jpg
Sir Richard Bishop: Tangier Sessions

oh that one is cool! here's one i like (side project from shabazz guy)

https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000099356471-bz3797-t500x500.jpg

fantastic cover

I love that Lapalux cover.

Something about that Egyptrixx cover ... the cloth looks very CGI.

Has anyone interviewed whoever does art for the Chromatics? Is that a found piece or do they have a lot of retro equipment or something?

chromatics cover is unreal good

Wonder the same about the Chromatics art.

That Jim White is straight '94, Grant Lee Buffalo vibes. I hate it.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bp/multi-love.jpg
Unknown Mortal Orchestra- Mulit-Love

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71JVnPVz5oL._SL1400_.jpg

Lotic's Heterocetera EP. So happy that there's more Janus-affiliated stuff on the way...

this is somewhat alarming:

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/21513/homepage_large.3deab547.jpg

Jeff Bridges - Sleeping Tapes

(album described as a sleep-aid 'made by the actor Jeff Bridges and the composer Keefus Ciancia, the creator of the music for "True Detective" and "Nashville")

man i am so sick of that hyper-detailed technical crap on that Heterocetera cover, just telegraphs that this album is not for me

aw that bridges art is a terrible shame... they really should have used this artwork instead (from his website)

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

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

nightmares either way imo

Is that real?

argh at fake flash flare

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51B3T63IgKL._SS280.jpg

https://i1.wp.com/ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Err0LYuFL.jpg

!!! - As If

we have an all-time winner:

http://www.forcedexposure.com/App_Themes/Default/Images/product_images/close_up/p/PAL039LP_CU.jpg

Yeah, that's awesome.

kinda reminds me of ovlov's kickdrum head

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZX3dHQIIAAdEMx.jpg

Santigold

http://i.imgur.com/cHAJwM6.jpg

Grimes

http://i.imgur.com/PzUyth4.jpg

Rachel Foxx's self titled EP

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/grmdaily/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/30133713/Rachel-Foxx.jpg

Kauan - Sorni Nai

https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61XIfpXl9sL._SS280.jpg

The 50 best record sleeves of 2015
Covers for Blur, Bjork and Kendrick Lamar are among 50 sleeves shortlisted in Art Vinyl’s annual cover design competition.
http://www.designweek.co.uk/the-best-record-sleeves-of-2015/

vote:
http://www.artvinyl.com/vote/
Voting will begin from 2nd November 2015 & the winners will be announced on 7th January 2016 at the Belgraves Hotel, London.

Teeth Of The Sea – Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
http://d250ptlkmugbjz.cloudfront.net/images/covers/91/38/5055300383891_600.jpg

Good one!

That designweek selections seems really poor to me.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51B3T63IgKL._SS280.jpg

― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Sunday, October 25, 2015 9:16 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's time to play... DAVE GAHAN FREEZE-FRAME

http://cf-images.emusic.com/music/images/album/159/521/15952102/600x600.jpg

http://i65.tinypic.com/2cnutmg.jpg
Wolf Eyes - I Am A Problem (Mind in Pieces)

The Vinyl Factory's 20 best vinyl record sleeves (or rather, best all-round 'products') of the year:

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/the-20-best-vinyl-record-sleeves-of-2015/

http://geo.static.traxsource.com/files/images/506691_large.jpg

oops

http://geo.static.traxsource.com/files/images/506691_large.jpg

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0781477511_10.jpg
Black Moth Super Rainbow - SeeFu Lilac

As terrible as I'd expect from a band called that.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/12307958_965636960160432_350534334712149341_o.jpg

Kyle Hall - From Joy

http://assets2.radiox.co.uk/2015/28/nothing-but-thieves-album-cover-1437136361.jpg

FACT have some strange selections

The 30 best album covers of 2015
http://www.factmag.com/2015/12/04/the-best-artwork-of-2015/
BY JOHN TWELLS, CHAL RAVENS, CHRIS KELLY, SCOTT WILSON, TOM LEA AND MILES BOWE, DEC 4 2015

Wara From the NBHD - If Guns Could Speak PSA
http://imh.ulximg.com/image/620x412/gallery/1449296689_2aa9b02488d1094ecaf87d8f278a0e49.jpg/ac9120e53e3acdea4cc9cc7ae6b8fb19/1449296689_b8083bfd63e5fb1c2b2ac751e0f8866a.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hwLwd5UEL.jpg
Christians Catch Hell - Gospel Roots 1976-79

oh yeah I need to listen to that

Feeling the cover to Cassie Ramone - Christmas in Reno:

http://burgerrecords.11spot.com/media/catalog/product/cache/51/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/c/a/cassie_ramone_-_christmas_in_reno_sm.jpg

these aren't very good
http://www.10x2015.com/

So this is 2016, but the new Roly Porter:

http://cdn.self-titledmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Roly_Porter-third-law.jpg

I would like to see that one irl

Album Covers of the Year 2015
http://www.redefinemag.com/2015/album-covers-of-the-year-2015/

Another year of our favorites in Top Album Cover Artwork, and once again, we interview musicians and artists on the often-underappreciated work that goes into creating a product that not only tickles your ears, but speaks to your eyes and hearts. Album artwork, though often only viewed on tiny screens in this day and age, is indeed a long and laborious process that we love to give its due credit.
So read on, and choose your own artistic adventure:

> Digital & 3D Album Covers
> Fine Art & Illustration Album Covers
> Mixed Media & Collage Album Covers
> Photography & Digitally-Manipulated Album Covers

that's fantastic

https://cdn.xlr8r.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RS1515LP_packshot1.jpg

Are there 3 people there? Isn't it just a lady and a man superimposed over each other? Why are there 6 arms? Why are my coworkers looking over at my monitor at that taintgina?

is there going to be a 2016 thread

http://theformant.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Egyptian-Lover-1984.jpeg

http://narcmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Outfit.jpeg

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2424691948_10.jpg
Francis Plagne - Funeral Mutes

that's 2016, I think

oh right I figured we were rolling with this thread until someone less lazy than I started a new one

My bad actually, I was positive we already had started it (I got it mixed up with the cover connections one)

Finally an actual noteworthy cover (the one for Slowness)

Certainly noteworthy:

http://www.asburyrecords.com/public/cover/9379_2.jpg

Not recommendations below, I just liked the album art:

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0327000372_10.jpg

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1543308321_10.jpg

Whoever starts the 2016 thread should start by reporting the Dear Tommy cover

*reposting

The Outfit one reminds me of Katy Lied.

Noteworthy album covers of 2016

A belated notable 2015 album cover I just saw:

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/861/MI0003861863.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Kinski - 7 (or 8)