Noteworthy album covers of 2013

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 ;_;

http://fiverosespress.net/wp-content/upload/slowearth_homecover.jpg

feel like this must be a recognised phobia a la the thread about things with holes in them whatever that's called

also, jizz

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/525671_462785317121397_1604875199_n.jpg

that's okay but those are the worst birds ever

oh god i love this (and her)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Personal_Record_%28Eleanor_Friedberger_album%29.jpg

I'm not a fan, but that's a NICE album cover.

one of the 3 covers for Momoiro Clover Z's 2nd album "5th Dimension", website with some weird metagame here http://www.5thdimension.jp/
http://i.imgur.com/9FV8qt5.jpg

http://coolestsound.jp/im/blog/480/http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jTuBA%252B%252BVL.jpg
Cornelius "Design Ah"

http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Azealia-Banks-YUNGRAPUNXEL-2013.png

Philip Rivers' favorite art of the year!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/a2faf5454ba8b9655635bb951febd51c/tumblr_mgm5diixT71qfazb9o1_500.jpg

This is cool.
http://www.freshselects.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FRSH-SLCTS-Darryl-Reeves-Dillaquarium.jpg

^^ ok i am intrigued. i can google, but what is this? what's it sound like?

presumably sounds like the cult of dilla, c/d?

The Dilla cult is real but there's also a little bit of a Thomas theorem thing going on with all that. *skips over that mess*

I've liked pretty much everything I've heard from Darryl Reeves thus far (though not really familiar with the rest of the quartet), haven't come across any jazz oriented interpretations of Dilla (Besides the track Robert Glasper did last year). Thought I'd give it a go and it checks out. He has fun with it, none of it feels too derivative and at 26 minutes it doesn't come close to outstaying its welcome. Its refreshing and doesn't feel unnecessary or forced.

http://exclaim.ca/images/ohsees2.jpg

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin

Awesome

HOLY SHIT

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/139/614/13961413/600x600.jpg