Noteworthy album covers of 2012

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/frying-on-this-rock.jpg
White Hills- Frying on this Rock

beach house - bloom
http://i.imgur.com/hIh35.jpg

awful

trypophobia thread is thataway

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...

fu if you don't think God's Father cover is notable

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2012-03/1331036180_cover.jpg

New Build - Yesterday was Lived and Lost

Posted here for its terribleness btw

New Album is Sad, a Lemon

Apologies if this has already been posted- I'm on a phone and can't see images- but holy crap, I love this:

http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/8317/laurel_halo_quarantine_1332348513_crop_550x550.jpg

good god, why?

Ok, never mind

no, i hate everything, don't worry about me

i think its great.

yeah, i love it

was gonna post it here but i could only find small versions

Turns out it's a detail from the painting Harikiri Schoolgirls 2002 by Makoto Aida

http://www.lassiwithlavina.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ACAW-AIDA.jpg

There's a piece about the painting here btw:
http://boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html

okay, this drawing is p great:

http://boingboing.net/features/aida/harakiri.jpg

the digitally dicked with version posted above, otoh, is hideous. and i dunno, i feel like i have at this point seen enough manga-style japanese art depicting cleverly butchered schoolgirls to last me a fucking lifetime.

http://www.tomentosarecords.com/gpssalp.jpg

^great record

(sylvester anfang II)

that is: Silvester Anfang – Perzische Tapijten (2012)

interesting note: first pressing of 500 sold out. 250 more currently being pressed. pressing denoted by 1st in rougher matt sleeve, 2nd in glossy sleeve…

one of those rougher matt sleeve pressings took a beating in transit

http://exclaim.ca/images/strange1.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx90unL2yZ1qcvrtro1_500.jpg

silvester anfang ii looks pretty great! hard to tell w such a small pic, but thumbs up

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/552633_10151434956285227_379787640226_23383306_2010158406_n.jpg

ignore the copy, great illustration.

high on fire - de vermis mysteriis

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/45593/0af63b8c.jpg

love the shine on the dog's nose!

http://i.imgur.com/Qje0O.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Pkfbb6Z-L._SS500_.jpg

Sigh – In Somniphobia

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/45148/header.jpg

silvester anfang ii Perzische Tapijten looks pretty great! hard to tell w such a small pic, but thumbs up

here is a bigger one:
http://www.borguez.com/uabab/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Perzische-Tapijten.jpg

dang, i hope it actually comes wrapped in an ancient towelette like that, not just a picture

but a picture's cool too

au cover is also great. i get seriously into agate sometimes.

http://thenjunderground.com/storage/Gossip-Joyful-Noise.jpg

Wow is that bad!

yeah, just do not understand. something good might have come of the basic image, i guess? if the background were a different color maybe, and if the text played up the garish WTF-ness. i mean, i'm reaching, perhaps because i like the gossip & beth, but i don't see how those elements could be combined in a less successful fashion.

do love sigh – in somniphobia. much better "painted cover" than either high on fire (their worst yet? at least tied w snakes) or day trader.

Beth Ditto's hand is strangely fascinating to me but everything else on that cover is a complete howler

high on fire (their worst yet? at least tied w snakes)

Definitely their worst album cover, though their cover art been heading downhill since "Blessed Black Wings."

more op art...

http://mute.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CarterTuttiVoidAlbumFront.jpg

Carter Tutti Void - Transverse

It's really ugly and a really old idea, but that sort of stuff still fascinates the shit out of my eyeballs.

yup

you do wonder wtf artists see when someone presents an idea like that ditto cover.

its like they just dont see it the same as the rest of us eg. the last lady gaga album cover ..

that gossip cover is like bizarro http://onetinyhand.com/

mpp has had an even worse effect on cover design then on music, huh

dang, i'm sure this is familiar to everybody but me, but so great! detail:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/dondetail.jpg

dangit. wrong thread. well, it should be an ablum cover...

wtf at hamm's hand there