I think they only pressed 500 that way (one of which I'm fortunate enough to own).
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Whoever posted it in the thread didn't have any info, just a pic. I would have jumped :(
― what's a goon to garbus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 3 March 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know it was limited until AFTER I'd posted/bought a copy. Only learned it when someone mentioned the pre-order was sold out.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 March 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
Could that Batida band possibly sound as cool as that cover looks? I'm probably going to be disappointed, right? What's his / her / their deal?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, March 2, 2012 8:14 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark
if you like energetic tropical dance music:
Soundway are set to release the debut album from Batida, the brainchild of Angolan / Portuguese DJ Mpula aka Pedro Coquenão. A distinctly modern and vibrant project with its feet firmly rooted in the past, Batida combine samples from old 1970s Angolan tracks with modern electronic dance music. Music is the starting point but through dance, graphics, photography, radio and video, Batida expands, taking in politics and social commentary but always bringing it back to the party.Being the first of a string of brand new projects, this eponymous first album sees Soundway taking a slightly different direction in 2012 and beyond. Championed mostly for their work in un-earthing and re-releasing classic, rare and vintage tropical recordings, Soundway have started signing new acts that have drawn on and been inspired by the kind of music found on the label’s groundbreaking compilations and re-issues.What originally started out as a radio show designed to promote new African music has slowly evolved into a collaborative project crossing continents.Whereas nearly all of kuduro (Angolan electronic music) has no obvious references to its country’s musical heritage, it is deeply engrained in Batida’s music. Sampling tracks from 1970s Angola, Batida is a reinterpretation of Angola’s musical past, bringing it firmly into the modern day.Batida’s high energy live show features dancers, live samples, percussionists, MCs alongside visuals and images (both archive and new) of Angolan streets, war and fragments of tribal life.
Being the first of a string of brand new projects, this eponymous first album sees Soundway taking a slightly different direction in 2012 and beyond. Championed mostly for their work in un-earthing and re-releasing classic, rare and vintage tropical recordings, Soundway have started signing new acts that have drawn on and been inspired by the kind of music found on the label’s groundbreaking compilations and re-issues.
What originally started out as a radio show designed to promote new African music has slowly evolved into a collaborative project crossing continents.
Whereas nearly all of kuduro (Angolan electronic music) has no obvious references to its country’s musical heritage, it is deeply engrained in Batida’s music. Sampling tracks from 1970s Angola, Batida is a reinterpretation of Angola’s musical past, bringing it firmly into the modern day.
Batida’s high energy live show features dancers, live samples, percussionists, MCs alongside visuals and images (both archive and new) of Angolan streets, war and fragments of tribal life.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 5 March 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn.rap-up.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dawn-richard-armor-on.jpg
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Dawn Richard - Armor On
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
I hate that ugly overused font, but cool photo/wardrobe idea.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
So similar to the new School Of Seven Bells!
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
would look much better without the font. Looks like a watermarked image as is.
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
Also the font is ugly.
i have a weakness for tracklists on front covers
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dafont.com/birth-of-a-hero.font
It's almost ubiquitous in low-budget cover art design at this point. Ick.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i'm not defending the font itself, just what it's used for.
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I do like large swaths of text in some situations, and if she'd chosen a different font I might have liked it here too.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oIkqt.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
The letter spacing on the word 'father' hurts my eyes. Funny cover tho.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Thursday, 8 March 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
Sinead O'Connor achieving the 3rd-tier Celtic-trad look here
http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif
cf. Green Linnet record covers: http://greenlinnet.com
― bendy, Thursday, 8 March 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
err...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HRoevuyhL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― bendy, Thursday, 8 March 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, mojo had that in their reviews section as the cover, whereas, amazon has the art as this :
which is a little better ..
― mark e, Thursday, 8 March 2012 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
fuck. soz.
go look @ amazon, its different.
http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/node_article_image/files/sinead-oconnor-2012-album.jpg
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 8 March 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
Both are terrible but the first is at least interesting-terrible.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
I caught her on some british TV show and the presenter (can't remember who it was) showed the cd and she was like 'THAT IS NOT THE COVER'
― owenf, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
she was wearing lots of weird saggy pvc and had a horrible myspace tattoo as well
― owenf, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
that Fritz Kalkbrenner made my stomach drop when the effect started working
― rob, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
I've always liked the cover aesthetic for CDs released by Nonplace, and IMO the latest album by Burnt Friedman is their best yet:
http://www.irieites.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/burnt_friedman.jpg
http://static.boomkat.com/images/527237/333.jpg
http://www.technique.co.jp:88/photo/img/201202/NON33CD_2.JPG
http://nonplace.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/non33.jpg
― Tuomas, Friday, 9 March 2012 08:02 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry about the multiple images, couldn't find any single pic where the cover was laid open.
― Tuomas, Friday, 9 March 2012 08:03 (twelve years ago) link
what's that sound like? it's gorgeous.
― wmlynch, Friday, 9 March 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
favorite ones on this thread are monolake and wooden shjips. love the earth one, too. bought that lp tonight and the girl who checked me out was all proud on behalf of her friend, who happened to have done that particular cover!
― omar little, Sunday, 11 March 2012 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
into this:
http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2012/03/Matthewdavid-Jewelry-608x608.jpg
matthewdavid - jewelry
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
That looks as though there are cutouts on the foreheads--is that so?
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 March 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://magiska.vlsweb.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/cover2-400x400.jpg
― good luck Peeta Mellark (Bee OK), Thursday, 15 March 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
v #rare and #based album cover. not sure about #secrete tho.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 15 March 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/photosizer/upload/anathemaweathersystemscover.jpeg
― good luck Peeta Mellark (Bee OK), Thursday, 15 March 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/whirr-pipe-dreams-400x400.jpg
― good luck Peeta Mellark (Bee OK), Thursday, 15 March 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8a522aed8c526a8208b32684/files/netherfriends_middle_america_web.jpg
― good luck Peeta Mellark (Bee OK), Thursday, 15 March 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah those three are terrible
― bear, bear, bear, Thursday, 15 March 2012 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
That Middle America/Netherfriends thing is pretty cool, actually.
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
Hah I know that Netherfriends guy. He's on a mission to record a song in every state in the USA. Really nice dude.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if the Anathema one was done using an iphone app
http://tinyplanetphotos.tumblr.com/
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 15 March 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/frying-on-this-rock.jpgWhite Hills- Frying on this Rock
― mizzell, Thursday, 15 March 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
beach house - bloomhttp://i.imgur.com/hIh35.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 06:52 (twelve years ago) link
awful
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
trypophobia thread is thataway
― trimdon orange explosion (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
gah, there hasn't been a "noteworthy" album cover posted since the break. burnt friedman art is kind of cool in a "looks like a detail from a mati klarwein painting" sense, but other than that...
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link
fu if you don't think God's Father cover is notable
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2012-03/1331036180_cover.jpg
New Build - Yesterday was Lived and Lost
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
Posted here for its terribleness btw
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link