Noteworthy album covers of 2012

being a pedant, but re: that dave dub cover, it looks like hand-lettered text, not type

hand-lettered typography

Might not work...

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/miscellaneous/may12/umberto-500x500.jpg

Umberto - Welcome to the Chillzone

god, that's great

they're reliably great with covers. also loved this from 2010:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2502834-1288331996.jpeg

nowhere near as good as the new one, though

It's hilarious isn't it? I like the build up of different visual planes too, and the wetness of the window and the greeness behind is just lovely.

http://extramusicnew.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/warp228_packshot_web.jpg

Squarepusher - Ufabulum

love that umberto sleeve

I like the build up of different visual planes too, and the wetness of the window and the greeness behind is just lovely.

otm

totally ridiculous on the face of it, but beautiful and smart as hell

Wait, why smart as hell? I like it and everything, but am I missing something? Conjures the last Mark McGuire LP for the background, anyway...

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/20/45/204547370-1.jpghttp://editionsmego.com/media/release/123/1/eMEGO123-350x350.jpg

Its horrible. Crap picture, crap photoshop job.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Beholder_%28D%26D%29.JPG

if we had avatars i'd be using it as one right now

for one thing the fact that there are six planes of perception in play (eight if you count the water drops), for another the deliberately bad comedy popeye skeleton waiting in his car for whatever happens next (choose your own adventure). plus just looks great, half the battle.

he's gonna fuck someone's shit up, i just know it

On the one hand you do have the deliberate cheapness and the crassness of the skull, which is entirely in keeping with the 80's horror soundtrack vibe of the music and there's some sort of narrative being set up - the skull isn't facing itself, it's freaking out at something unknown located outside of the shot (in the car? outside the car?). The different reflections in the mirror are puzzling cos it looks like the windows are reflecting back into it. You've got that white van and you're wondering what's in the back, or who just got out. And where does that path outside lead? And then you have the beauty of the raindrops on the windscreen, that lovely greenness of the garden, the way the sky is actually quite bright, but the blue sun strip thing is modulating the light.

I'm pretending also that it's Mike Watt freaking out five miles down the road from the Double Nickels shot as Donald Pleasence steps out of the van ahead.

i'm digging the new laetitia. nice haircut btw

http://s3.cucharasonica.com/files/2012/05/LaetitiaSadier_Silencio.jpg

gb - the provider

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/36/16/3616581275-1.jpg

I like both of those.

huh

http://www.wierdrecords.com/store/images/vaura.jpg

yipes, that umberto cover is terrible. looks like a throw-away cell phone picture with some awkward photoshopping.

heads ain't ready

^^

skull ruins it

it would be nothing without the skull!! nothing!

a cover with nothing but that skull x 30 would be amazing

skull ruins it

people and their ideas

a field of tiny skulls that when squinted at "magically" reveals the image of a trilaterally dimensional skull

it hurts me to disagree with some of you, but so be it

it would be nothing without the skull!! nothing!

― 12plsrU (electricsound), Tuesday, May 8, 2012 6:58 PM Bookmark

srsly

that cover reminds me of ethereal killer for some reason

http://ihrtn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Ethereal-Killer.jpeg

Except that is good.

Reading the praise for that Umberto cover is making me question my own reality and sense of order in the universe.

i laugh every time i see it, and it seems to contain certain vitamins.

http://i.imgur.com/Rg57Y.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/Rg57Y.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/Rg57Y.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/Rg57Y.png

just so

if i had one of those restoration hardware frames into which you put album covers, i would put it and offer no explanation to all who complained

i tried to magic eye that row, electricsound, but it only made additional skulls

Amazing cover for the reissue of Dopesmoker:

http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/albums/17771/homepage_large.d0f32fc9.jpg

Nice neon anemones on the cover of the new Lone album:
http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/Lone%20cover.jpg

Nice. I think this might be one of my favorite Bobby P covers yet.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/532669_403425903025452_292193060815404_1292635_1636070468_n.jpg

want to like the new dopesmoker cover, as i've been a roper fan for ages, but like i said on some sleep thread or another, this is the best part of the design, imo:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/newsleeplogo.png

the rest is just dull

Lone album

!

it's on spotify, kind of went straight past me on first listen though after the first couple of tracks

lone cover is perfect

from late '11, but still noteworthy.. "fucking dispair" by fat history month

http://i.imgur.com/iR7sO.jpg