Noteworthy album covers of 2013

Featuring Justin Vernon. I don't know if that lessons or heightens your excitement.

um...we'll wait and see then

ben frost is the producer though, maybe that cancels jv out?

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/new-eric-clapton-album-old-sock-due-in-march-20130129/1000x306/clapton-306-1359473322.jpg http://www.rollingstone.com/assets/images/album_review/07d215daa6177d616bad074643951ae093363dd1.jpg

EZ you really like that Clapton?! Like as in like as a joke right?

No, I think it's kind of wonderfully cheesy and apropos for the old codger. EC don't give a fuck, and it shows.

i wonder if photo is a selfie

Yeah ok I get that. Having worked with him and his camp, he (they) kinda DOES give a fuck though, which is why this surprises me a little.

New Stetson = too much Vernon = bummer. It's a lot lighter than the last full length.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x41x0Xf8Qk

(start at 1:00)

hahaha never heard that smashmouth joke

Like the Clapton cover way better than his previous album.

ERIC CLAPTON
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2010/6/26/1277553438063/Giant-tortoise-numbers-ar-006.jpg
OLD COCK

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/indie/strokes-comedown-machine.jpg

kind of similar vibe to...

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/rom/feb13/brmc-500x500.jpg

makes me think of shellac 1000 hurts too, the cd was packaged in a box similar to that used for reel-to-reel tape

i like it but its kind of a played out look in 2013 imho

yes, definitely. seen that exact idea used for other stuff too, can't think what though xp

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/rom/dec12/bellacd377-500x500.jpg

^ almost as ugly as his last album. very brown, very drake take care

still waiting for his chicken leg order to arrive

That has to be intentional.

who is he? i kinda like that.

He used to front The Czars.

Umberto - Confrontations

https://adhoc-staging.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/images/confrontations_medium_image.jpg

I like that.

http://alllossless.net/uploads/posts/2012-12/1356345060_131766funeral_for_a_friend.jpg

funeral for a friend: conduit

I love that.

Last two are solid enough that I'm close to Googling those bands.

Like the Clapton cover way better than his previous album.

Is that the one where he's giving the camera a sour look like you're getting too close to his Bentley?

guy who did the FFAF artwork is a nice dude of my acquaintance, he has loads of stuff like that ('snowskull' on instagram iirc). can't say much for the actual band though

Cover connections:

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/rom/dec12/bellacd377-500x500.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jkk60ajGDrU/UOZT1aSv_FI/AAAAAAAABNQ/CV7eSZOJnWY/s1600/julie.jpg

I guess by Julie's 18th birthday she'd gotten the fuck away from him.

oh good spot t-dawg!

Even their names are almost the same! Did he change his last name from "Bult" to "Grant" once he got on parole?

Haha yes, it's just perfect. He's come out saying he's a reformed character: given up the booze, quit the tobacco, got himself some book-learning - and yet all the same, he knows what you know and I know: the beast still lurks within.

Föllakzoid - II (great space rock album)

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2013-01/1359471091_cover.jpg

Looks nice, but all the extra stuff on the cover kinda ruins the cool image. Why not have only the title there, and everything else on the back cover?

It's part of the label's house style. Works better on some covers than others.

Yeah, but I'm not sure I understand why and when Sacred Bones decides to break with the house style. They're breaking it a little for the new Men record, but that one up there seems like a much better design to allow a break.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/538cd6ad0ddadbed72f98ebf08ecd63e/o4359382.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dQD4pRE.jpg

Terrific album, as well.

Who is it?

"House style".. 20th century Jazz and classical albums to thread

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Who is it?

Warm Soda is the band. Someone for You is the album.

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http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d9a4e24cfd7f08279c2dd3c17/images/jelloalbumart_small.jpg

Winston Smith’s cover image is hard to forget and hard to ignore- one of his best in years!

I don't think that Biafra has a chance of closing down Gitmo with that album cover.

http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/i/covers/3/0/0/0/30002203.jpg

The geometry here makes my eyes happy

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mhtfyh5h6k1qictjl_1360183049_cover.jpg

http://www.billboard.com/files/styles/promo_650/public/media/justin-timberlake-20-20-experience-650-430.jpg

RIP that disco ball ;_;