Noteworthy album covers of 2013

down w/all three of these so far. 2013 lookin good.

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/tracks/14676/homepage_large.bec675b0.jpg

this is a single and possibly available to buy now but fukkit it looks great and has 'a reference' to 'get'

That's fantastic! I hadn't seen that.

jeselnik cover and album name a+++

I would listen to any album with that cover and especially any album with that cover AND title. Thankfully I'm already a bit familiar with Jeselnik and yeah, he's funny.

http://i.imgur.com/Amh8f.jpg

Wave Machines, Pollen

That gives me a headache

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

I'd freak out during this photoshoot from having my airways covered up.

that really would be the worst way to die too, posing for the hideous cover of a new Bettie Serveert album

http://i48.tinypic.com/3091qjd.jpg
Gazelle Twin - Mammal EP

Honestly I wouldn't have minded another Suzanne Moxhay photocollage as on The Entire City, as Moxhay has a lot of stunning work, but this is good.

http://i.imgur.com/nxV3H.jpg

Beach Fossils - Clash the Truth

Beanie Sigel The Truth

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/48509/bcd83c1c.jpg

http://www.epitaph.com/dispatch/_depot/title/large/357b06e5b653d966f9d0465385090612.jpg

This is the first BR cover art in a million years to look like a BR cover should look.

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/29/59/2959837380-1.jpg

My illustration! My cat! My handtype!

http://theepoch.bandcamp.com/album/the-epoch-is-now-volume-2

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no idea if this link will work

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

La Big Vic - Cold War

I like that one. I have no use for the band but that's pretty great.

Yeah, I wish they were better, because they have two pretty special album covers so far.

Know nothing of the band, but would probably buy any thrift-store paperback Sci-Fi novel that had that as a cover.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/indie/danfriel-totalfolklore.jpg
Dan Friel- Total Folklore

http://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Action-Bronson-Rare-Chandeliers-gif.gif

http://www.mountaain.com/threeleggedrace/sp022-500i.jpg

i know it's supposed to be parodying some kind of blaxploitation trope but that action bronson cover is pretty much exactly the bobby digital in stereo cover.

didn't that Three Legged Race album come out in December?

not nitpicking, just trying to figure out if it's eligible for my 2013 list. i thought it was scheduled for early December but now all of a sudden, i'm seeing reviews (including p4k's)

Yeah it definitely came out in 2012, it was on Spotify last month.

I'm a huge fan of the typesetting on the Broadcast LP. Though the right aligned but centre placement is something that normally drives me crazy.

Here's some of Julian House's takes on the Berberian Sound Studio artwork. http://festivalvanguard.blogspot.com/2012/09/alternate-posters-for-berberian-sound.html

alternate takes, I should say.

I'm a huge fan of the typesetting on the Broadcast LP. Though the right aligned but centre placement is something that normally drives me crazy.

huh?

the first cover itt has quite a Barney Bubbles vibe.

not really sure what this sounds like but i like the windam hill vibe

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

http://www.guitarworld.com/files/imce-images/bowie_next.jpg

so very ugly

I dunno, I kinda like it.

Looks like he's just stuck the title over that Cex album cover (jk.)

Only January and I think we've found the most wtf cover of 2013.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/indie/yeah-yeah-yeahs-mosquito.jpg

they spelled "Primus" wrong.

La Big Vic - Cold War

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 7, 2013 6:55 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like that one. I have no use for the band but that's pretty great.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, January 7, 2013 6:59 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I wish they were better, because they have two pretty special album covers so far.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, January 7, 2013 7:00 AM (1 week ago)

They are named for an ilx0r if you can believe that.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_r2QpqEEKpg/ULZvqv2Bt2I/AAAAAAAACzY/TaxGojRA0ik/s400/cover.png

what a dramatic way to die

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/31/65/3165155548-1.jpg

What is it? Is it the sequel to the Nine Inch Nails giant hand album?

http://i.imgur.com/CSyTi00.jpg

http://distilleryimage4.s3.amazonaws.com/26f2f8e46a2e11e2ad8422000a1fa8e9_7.jpg

guys please change all covers to greyscale before posting them here-- if i want to see what they really look like i'll look EVERYWHERE ELSE on the internet, thx

This is an album art thread. Those are POLL RESULTS GRAPHICS. If u cannot tell the difference between these two things, then...ugh.

i'm just being a dick, JF, i'll stop.

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/new-eric-clapton-album-old-sock-due-in-march-20130129/1000x306/clapton-306-1359473322.jpg

lol wut

more like old cock amirite

like the parkay quarts! looks exactly like they sound.

somewhere between early fall and early pavement then?

When I interviewed them they stressed how much they hate being compared to both those bands lol

Great job of asserting some aesthetic distance there guys

That's hilarious. We HATE being compared to the two bands who we sound the most like and whose entire visual aesthetic we draw from!

somewhere between early fall and early pavement then?

― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:56 AM (7 hours ago)

close enough

http://cdn2.thelineofbestfit.com/media/2013/10/Future-Of-The-Left-How-To-Stop-Your-Brain-In-An-Accident-500x500.jpg

would like to think that the one in the bottom left corner is "no dean blunt records"

http://esg6rzdhdg9i115s.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/r-kelly-black-panties-500.jpg

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/deon-kallisti-102413.png

http://www.33-45.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/original_DeMeester_si_01.jpg

Andy Votel is easy, I know, but damn

http://www.hotcuprecords.com/images/c400_slippery_rock.jpg
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Slippery Rock!

http://www.bestartvinyl.com/vote.html?nc=1385468989

Might be wrong about this, but I've noticed since vinyl sales have picked up that big, busy, slightly-psychedelic album art seems to also be making a resurgence. There must be a difference for artworkers when creating something for vinyl or CD markets?

it's like, if i'm going to shell out for something on vinyl, and i'm trying to pick between two albums but can't decide, often it's the artwork that's the deal maker.

Ras G is the best one there, love that cover

This came out months ago and everyone has probably already seen it, but I love this

http://cdn.rap-up.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fantasia-side-effects-cover.jpg

Back cover:

http://christalrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/back-of-fantasias-side-effects-of-you-album-christal_rock.jpg

http://nme.assets.ipccdn.co.uk/images/gallery/2013GeorgePringle_GolfoDeiPoeti_600G190413.jpg

George Pringle- Golfo Dei Poeti

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0161/8690/products/DING-DONG-DISQUESweb_grande.jpg?v=1383427113

george pringle one is awesome-- what's it sound like?

There's a Quietus review here-
http://thequietus.com/articles/11621-george-pringle-gulfo-dei-poeti-review

Might be wrong about this, but I've noticed since vinyl sales have picked up that big, busy, slightly-psychedelic album art seems to also be making a resurgence. There must be a difference for artworkers when creating something for vinyl or CD markets?

― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 7:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's like, if i'm going to shell out for something on vinyl, and i'm trying to pick between two albums but can't decide, often it's the artwork that's the deal maker.

― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 7:56 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmmm, I dunno how true it is (there could be lots of other reasons for the popularity of psychedelic imagery right now) but I could almost imagine that simply seeing more things on vinyl might encourage an artist to imagine their work in that nice large format, and go ahead and include details that they might otherwise not have. But then I think that the worst era for album art was probably the height of the CD years. Even stuff that I imagine doesn't sell that much on vinyl has been looking a lot better lately (big pop albums and stuff).

bring back longboxes imo

http://i.imgur.com/NuSC4zr.jpg

I had all but two of those (Cure and Smiths) cut out and taped to my door in high school.

http://nnatapes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/NNA069.jpg

kewl

a nice festive one for you:

http://www.erasuresnowglobe.com/img/erasure-snowglobe-album.jpg

Can't remember whether it was posted or not but shittiest cover of the year is... Cut Copy?

gotta be black flag

Yeah, Black Flag and then Cut Copy.

oh how could i forget the flag?

Bleed the patriarchy

http://i4.sndcdn.com/artworks-000058227456-wwwq40-t500x500.jpg?b09b136

http://gp1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/802892/production_public/Album/23443/album_image/e10acafa67d52fec117725b29b4da475f109a00a.jpg

FACT did their best and worst lists btw:

http://www.factmag.com/2013/12/07/the-30-best-album-covers-of-2013/
http://www.factmag.com/2013/12/07/the-30-worst-album-covers-of-2013/

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0164/9352/products/spin050_Vastum_COVweb_1024x1024.jpg

^ can't stop looking at that bat

feel like i wanna wave back

meant to add the vastum cover the other day, but forgot. so great! was bummed by the comparatively dull imagery on the vinyl version, but turns out it has a poster of that ghastly thing inside (uncropped art, no text).

the artist, paolo girardi, also did the covers for this year's power trip and inquisition albums (among a ton of other stuff, busy dude). think i might have posted the former somewhere way upthread...

man, FACT's best 30 are almost as bad as their worst 30. baffling choices, most of them.

fact sure doesnt like r&b/hip hop

For those of you who liked the Deafheaven cover.

http://pitchfork.com/news/57800-deafheaven-selling-sunbather-font/