Noteworthy album covers of 2012

Kindness- Cyan 12". Not sure yet about the song, but the sleeve kind of jumped out at me for whatever reason.

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

thumbs up:

earth (wish i liked the music)
kinny (damn that's great, too bad bout the label logo)
lana del ray (want to say it's vacant, but something about it...)
bocca grande
necrocomiccon (dumb, but i lold)
guided by voices (weirdly beautiful)
nacho picasso (huge sucker for bad retro fantasy art)
flights of fancy
mars volta (only okay, but good okay)
black mill tapes
lilacs and champagne
carlos giffoni
madonna
dan sartain
rhine gold (so so lazy, but w/e)

do not love:

school of the 7 bells (assume this was a joke, JF?)
black dice (weird, cuz they've done some of the best album art of the last 10 years)
alcest (barf, self-important nothing)
guatafan (???)
julien dyne
foxy shazam
paul brill
d'marc cantu (dgi, i should love this but instead hate it)
yasmin
gangrene
herzog
buildings (striking, but no)
whatever tf that last one was

no opinion on the rest

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

Young Magic - Melt

http://i.imgur.com/Szqp3.jpg

neat

a bit too obvious "liquify" effect in photoshop, but wow if that isn't a striking cover

wooden shjips remixes ep. simple and perfect

http://www.indierockreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/WoodenShjips-300x300.jpg

i always love seeing that font

wooden shjips one is making me feel oddly weepy and im not sure why.

young magic is nice. get a ho-hum, treading-water feeling off wooden shjips and that cadillac one upthread. agree about the font though.

i know wooden shjips isn't chillwave but that cover reads very generic chillwave to me

Wooden Shjips one is perfect, especially playing off the artwork for the parent album, but I also sort of feel like it should be a Trans Am album with that font. Or like Trans Am should have used that Wooden Shjips font for this one:

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd000/d073/d073358f7g0.jpg

picked this one up this morning, i like it a lot

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/131/216/13121640/600x600.jpg

That looks the special fx always used in tv and movies when someone's about to enter a wormhole.

...in the 1960s

tempest

Frankie Rose - Interstellar sleeve/vinyl

http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/img/large/slr150-color.jpg

*drool*

does look v nice, though i am trying v hard not to be tempted into buying a vinyl copy of a record i expect to be lukewarm on

The three tracks on soundcloud from this album so far are light years ahead of the album from a couple years back with "The Outs".

good good

lol I just preordered a copy and I don't even have a turntable anymore.

frankie rose is streaming here if you want to sample

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-3246578-1322209899.jpeg

Hmmm

http://991.com/newGallery/Whirlwind-Heat-Types-Of-Wood-356791.jpg

I remember that band's name, but from a LONG time ago.

gross

that record is like four years old

oops. Sorry guys, for a number of reasons.

http://cdn.songonlyrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Ladyhawke-Anxiety-album-cover.jpg

Ladyhawke - Anxiety

Album Covers Featuring Tiny People Living In The Artist's Or Cover Model's Hair

ooh there's a new ladyhawke? is it good?

It's not "around" yet afaik.

Single is ace though.

good to know!

http://i.imgur.com/t5BEh.jpg

zany

hope this works

http://media2.haulix.com/14644/PromoImage.jpg?width=425&height=425

That's some Thee Oh Sees looking shit right there.

My first album cover of 2012:

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/35/68/356871944-1.jpg

http://theepoch.bandcamp.com/

torche cover makes me so happy http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/44506/e5ca8bcb.jpg

Chantal Morte - Mental Short

http://i.imgur.com/9TY6l.jpg

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/44668/1932149b.jpeg

lol, check 5th post in thread

Oops! :)

http://malleusdelic.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/ufomammut_oro.jpg%3Fw%3D450%26h%3D450

I'm a big fan of the work by Malleus collective, but I prefer their tour posters, which are not as subdued as the more tasteful albums, heh.

I voted for this one in this week's Cover Art Battle.

http://metalriot.com/wp-content/uploads/Pilgrim-Misery-Wizard.jpg

It's currently runner-up to this. The B&W makes it seem incomplete to me.

http://metalriot.com/wp-content/uploads/Witchaven-Terrorstorm.jpg

http://www.purpletapepedigree.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/KA_Grief-Pedigree_front_hires-650x650.jpg

Ka - Grief Pedigree

so not good. this thread is baffling to me. last good album cover = that young magic thing that johnny posted.

appreciate chantal morte and ufomammut as drawings, like in terms of technique and execution, but that's about it.

i dunno, maybe i'm being too squeamish abt the chantal morte art... it's certainly striking and memorable.

I like it. You see all these kinda random things but might miss that Ka is lurking behind them, masked up and watching your every move.

Also, I think you misunderstand the point of this thread.