Noteworthy album covers of 2012

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Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link

uh

Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

amongst all the other wrongs in play, it looks just like she's queefed a cabbage

Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link

haha well that's pretty much what you'd think an r stevie moore/ariel pink jawn would look like

the penultimate prophets (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link

Too fonty.

Mongo Beefhead Tribesman (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link

LOOKS
FUCKING
STUPID

#yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 30 March 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, I love a good typography cover. Someone let them know that's not one.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link

wow that pink/moore cover is quite bold

akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Friday, 30 March 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago) link

When you uninvert the colours in that Ariel Pink cover, it actually looks pretty cool (except for the Yin Wang thing):

NSFW, obviously

Why couldn't they have just used the original instead of the arty inverted one?

Tuomas, Friday, 30 March 2012 07:10 (twelve years ago) link

"Yin Yang"

Tuomas, Friday, 30 March 2012 07:11 (twelve years ago) link

lol

akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Friday, 30 March 2012 07:15 (twelve years ago) link

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhldsfmaskdngoaeisjfd;

that walkmen one is really bad

the penultimate prophets (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link

name?

i like it

Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

Bear in Heaven- I Love You, It's Cool

mizzell, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

Dr John keeping it real

http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-artists-image/media/images/dr-john-locked-down-450-sq.jpg

mizzell, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link

we can't all be george clinton

TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago) link

that is p amazing actually

the album sounded ok while they were reviewing it on npr but it also sorta reeked of black keys

akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link

Just the fact that he's even approaching being aggressive in any way again is refreshing. He's been dishing out meaningless jingles for decades.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link

this kinda thing is total catnip to me, stolen from the punk thread:

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/29/54/295457560-1.jpg

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link

Not a big fan of Cold War Kids, but I love this style of cover (note to The Walkmen: typography based covers done right can look really good!)

http://www.rocknbeats.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Cold-War-Kids-Minimum-Day-e1326828917613.jpg

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link

dr. john throwing back to his old psychedelic swamp days! nice cover!

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/97521115e37654b955862a731674ff0b/8055.jpg

^^i thought i hated dr. john until i heard this album, which is a heavy groove, maaaan

the penultimate prophets (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link

like that fake limbs. reminds me a bit too strongly of pissed jeans shallow though.

reminds me a bit too strongly of vivian girls though.

titanius sterlingsmith, fancyman of corwood (electricsound), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link

(the text mostly)

titanius sterlingsmith, fancyman of corwood (electricsound), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link

Fake Limbs cover rules

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 5 April 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.side-line.com/images/uploads/march12042012.jpg

Bee OK, Saturday, 7 April 2012 05:59 (twelve years ago) link

It Hugs Back - Laughing Party
http://www.ithugsback.co.uk/records/artwork/laughingparty-front&spine.jpg

Bee OK, Saturday, 7 April 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link

Friendly Strangers - Where We Go, We Grow
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/80/17/801703134-1.jpg

Bee OK, Saturday, 7 April 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago) link

I do not like these past three covers, band names or titles.

Oxnard Cohen (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 7 April 2012 06:12 (twelve years ago) link

it hugs back have done some lovely sleeves, but that is not one of their lovely ones.

kate axford likes this (electricsound), Saturday, 7 April 2012 07:28 (twelve years ago) link

http://i342.photobucket.com/albums/o428/xr2saish/artworks-000017271135-736wqc-original.jpg

Slava - Soft Control

Can't remember if I posted that already. Yet another hands-only cover, kind of fascinated by the moisture content of this one though.

Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link

for some reason that gives me the creeps.

Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 7 April 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, that hand looks like something they found in the fish counter at Sainsbury's.

Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Saturday, 7 April 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link

it must be some kind of oil with water on top to give that droplet effect, no? very weird

chilli, Saturday, 7 April 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

just caught up on this thread after 2-3 months, here's a few i didn't see yet

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dCD1pjndL._SS400_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bLD8bFWVL._SS500_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ems1Se8-L._SS500_.jpg

ilxor, Sunday, 8 April 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link

^^ second one is Mirrorring - Foreign Body

ilxor, Sunday, 8 April 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link

quite like the mirrorring one, though i don't love the music tbh

scumulator (electricsound), Sunday, 8 April 2012 04:40 (twelve years ago) link

Like the Mirroring cover, too. Cover connection with the Flights of Fancy one!

Oxnard Cohen (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 8 April 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61YJtfm6ywL._SS500_.jpg

Zammuto – Zammuto

DavidM, Sunday, 8 April 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link

dope

Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 8 April 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link

The Wake - A Light Far Out
http://music.is-amazing.com/sites/music.is-amazing.com/files/thelights.jpg

Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago) link

Great White Buffalo - Tightrope
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/31/11/3111689088-1.jpg

Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link

Tiger Waves - Don't Be YOurself
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/36/89/3689307729-1.jpg

Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago) link

thread is always full of bafflement. only "noteworthy" covers good or bad in the last few days are the slava and the zammuto, and the latter's no great shakes...

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/09/cyan.jpg

is this supposed to be BOB from twin peaks?

tanuki, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 06:33 (twelve years ago) link


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