Noteworthy album covers of 2017

i wish we still had separate threads for good and bad covers because there are a lot of terrible covers on this thread but i suspect the people posting them think they are good. can you at least please say if you think the cover you're posting is good or bad so i can make fun of you?

― na (NA), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link

I think that's only fair.

― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link

- Juana cover reminds me of a Vermicious Knid
- mine was posted because it's good ftr

― horny and dead sons of toil (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link

I only post good covers. Just so you know.

― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link

yeah if a bad cover is posted it gets called

― niels, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 05:48 (six years ago) link

Posted the Yachty cover cause it felt noteworthy, still not sure how i feel about it tho. Popular rap being more open to diversity is obviously great but 'homosexuality is wack' Migos being on the record kinda makes the cover a good embodiment of a certain strand of social media wokeness.

― devvvine, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link

i only post covers i like

― brimstead, Thursday, 11 May 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link

itt

― brimstead, Thursday, 11 May 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1276301882_10.jpg

― na (NA), Thursday, 11 May 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link

http://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/images/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best/J_HUS_COMMON_SENSE_HUE_1_1__p1vsl2/j-hus-common-sense.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 19 May 2017 09:09 (six years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2667707336_10.jpg

Sheer Mag - Need To Feel Your Love

badass

― alpine static, Thursday, 25 May 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link

edit: badass overall ... i wouldn't have chosen that font for the album title, tho

― alpine static, Thursday, 25 May 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link

yeah, that's really good.

― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Friday, 26 May 2017 04:47 (six years ago) link

quite reminiscent of this...

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/m/mikeoldfield-fivemilesout%281%29.jpg

― del esdichado (NickB), Friday, 26 May 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link

i think he did a good job with this:

http://exclaim.ca/images/dan_3.jpg

― alpine static, Friday, 2 June 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link

the Pharmakon cover is so cool, easily my favorite so far this year

― flappy bird, Friday, 2 June 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link

Pharmakon showed up in my discover weekly spotify thing a couple of weeks ago. Was a bit of a shock to have that unexpectedly show up on my phone's lock screen.

Very good album, btw.

― silverfish, Friday, 2 June 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link

https://images.cdbaby.name/t/h/thearcana.jpg

Tomorrow is Yesterday by The Arcana

― martyfalling, Friday, 2 June 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link

you're still here?

― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 June 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link

Yeah, Pharmakon wins. Awesome album to boot.

― pomenitul, Friday, 2 June 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link

Lol @ The Fucking Arcana. Have to hand it to you, "martyfalling", you've got endurance. Till the fp's rack up to 51 that is. I'm assuming that won't be too long from now, so make the most of it here. Tomorrow. Or yesterday.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 June 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link

Marty, this thread isn't "covers of noteworthy albums"

― brimstead, Friday, 2 June 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link

A few of my favorite from this year so far, would probably hang most of these on my walls:

http://i.imgur.com/h8q7T6J.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/r4uiGJM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kI641OU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bzfCk4U.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/dVm2LRv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6oxPFYd.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/ir1pVpg.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/PWoddX4.jpg

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Friday, 2 June 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link

What's the one in between Tinariwen and Thundercat?

Snaa Alegra one very nice.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 June 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link

Hand Habits - Wildly Humble

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Saturday, 3 June 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link

No sorry the actual title is:

Wildly Idle (Humble before the void)

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Saturday, 3 June 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link

is it ok if i just post sleeves that i think look nice, i don't think they're necessarily amazing or brilliant or anything

a cosmic gift - hologram
http://i.imgur.com/LpWHFIm.jpg

kettenkarussell ‎– insecurity guard
http://i.imgur.com/xfrEitp.jpg

smagghe & cross - ma
http://i.imgur.com/xLCgda8.jpg

tonstartssbandht ‎– sorcerer
http://i.imgur.com/gfMeeeL.jpg
(ok yes it's an ECM/Sky ripoff/homage.. the sleeve, i mean)

computer graphics - lo-fi
http://i.imgur.com/6FbGvTd.jpg
(this one is pretty cheap looking but

mono no aware (PAN compilation)
http://i.imgur.com/0rsvwwm.jpg

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link

hmmm. here's the PAN one:
http://i.imgur.com/0rsvwwm.jpg

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link

thundercat one is good

― brimstead, Saturday, 3 June 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link

http://d1wtzzt4oxg683.cloudfront.net/images/covers/136/164386.jpg

Sweet Baboo - Wild Imagination

― Dinsdale, Saturday, 3 June 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link

^^ Sledgehammer vibes from that one

― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 3 June 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link

Sweet Baboo: Another entry for the Peanuts references in music? thread.

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 3 June 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link

hmmm. here's the PAN one:

my record of the year so far.

― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link

yeh the PAN album is so good

― nxd, Sunday, 4 June 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/VDSQ_ChuckJohnson.jpg

― mizzell, Monday, 5 June 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/423626/large/829732254334_T33417744090054.jpg
Guerilla Toss - GT Ultra

― mizzell, Monday, 5 June 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link

Limited to 21 hand-numbered copies professionally dubbed and printed on 24K Gold Flake colored cassette tapes. Custom Hand-Cut $1 Sheet Alternate Album Artwork, made with 100% Authentic 1988 Uncut $1Bills! [Burn Capitalism To The Ground] (Millionaire Edition).

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/0009213632_10.jpg

― brimstead, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link

(that's wrestling wave by limousine)

― brimstead, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2017/06/oh-sees-orc.jpg?w=630&h=630&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89

Oh Sees - Orc

― mizzell, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/428685/large/816216027249_T34140806490054.jpg

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 16 June 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link

https://www.xlr8r.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/The-Mulholland-Free-Clinic_LP_Packshot-770x770.jpg

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 25 June 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link

I miss the days when bands put out cheesy cartoonish album covers.
So does Mexico's Battle Raider

http://gallery.mailchimp.com/bc095d7581180521ee87967a5/images/b5f0e759-a2f6-4d4c-9b0a-344569c03d7f.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link

Good/bad? I can't decide.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDkpvAvXsAEhj2B.jpg

― Jeff W, Friday, 30 June 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link

hell yes at that Battle Raider cover

― frogbs, Friday, 30 June 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2017/k7348lp-michael-mayer.jpg

― Ludo, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9e3KdGV5Cbg/hqdefault.jpg

― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link

Behind The Pale
by William Ryan Fritch
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0607182347_10.jpg

Not sure this is the cover art I'd pick for an album about my newborn daughter, but there you go

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Ke$ha - Rainbow

https://ptpimg.me/720ngk.jpg

― octobeard, Friday, 11 August 2017 05:14 (six years ago) link

I see a weird exits and an odd entrances in that art.

― octobeard, Friday, 11 August 2017 05:19 (six years ago) link

same guy: http://www.robertbeattyart.com

― alpine static, Friday, 11 August 2017 07:09 (six years ago) link

I see a weird exits and an odd entrances in that art.

that's no way to talk about a lady

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 14 August 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link

http://s0.limitedrun.com/images/1250184/v600_Science_Fiction.jpg

Brand New, 'Science Fiction'

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 20 August 2017 09:03 (six years ago) link

Are there two of these threads? Weird.

Noteworthy Album Covers of 2017

― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 20 August 2017 11:27 (six years ago) link

Yeah there's two. My req to close one at the start of the year went unnoticed. Picked this one because it's got way more, idk.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 20 August 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link

the Brand New cover is great, of course. but i'm curious: did they photoshop the girl in red? is it a found photo of a very dumb jump? did they stage a stunt? anyone know?

― alpine static, Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link

I've seen that photo used elsewhere, but upside down, not sure where.

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 20 August 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link

Photographer is Thobias Fäldt but that still doesn't tell us whether it's staged or not (first comment on this page is about her hair being too nice for a jump like that, but who knows, maybe she's actually jumping UP to the window and not the opposite). Came across this piece of work while searching for info.

― Dinsdale, Monday, 21 August 2017 06:26 (six years ago) link

Lol, seems legit.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 21 August 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link

http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2017/08/unnamed-9-1503670882-608x608.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 26 August 2017 06:49 (six years ago) link

https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/trr291_mogwai_ecs_cover_hi-res_1500x1500px_1024x1024.jpg
Mogwai - Every Country's Sun

― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link

fake or no, my ankles ache looking at that. xp

― andrew m., Thursday, 31 August 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link

https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/a-giant-dog-toy-album-art.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 3 September 2017 05:42 (six years ago) link

From the Oh Sees' reject pile

― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 3 September 2017 07:05 (six years ago) link

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HAc5cU9kBpo/WY7BLz2g6tI/AAAAAAAAB2c/9sqxGrqrjHgqFaVWkErhvXMvKZ7y8BfNgCLcBGAs/s1600/tetragrammacide.jpg

Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix

― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Monday, 4 September 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link

I like that.

― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 4 September 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b3/Masseduction.jpg/440px-Masseduction.jpg

St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

― niels, Thursday, 7 September 2017 07:12 (six years ago) link

Back cover:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d-ABIIZV3vA/maxresdefault.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 7 September 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/59b68cb1f858504d860d732b/master/pass/mstaplesalliwas.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 11 September 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5929c43fc0084474cd0c364e/1:1/w_320/2c13415b.png

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1754335027_10.jpg

― Ludo, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link

http://www.altpress.com/images/uploads/news/sacred_son_album_cover_2017.jpg

(http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/black_metal_album_cover_sacred_son)

― Ludo, Thursday, 28 September 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link

Yesssss he's everywhere

― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 September 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link

ahahahahaha some friends were passing that cover around & links to a bunch of pissed metalheads... so sick

― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 September 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2017/06/a0105432156_10-1498161172-640x640.jpg

GT ULTRA - Guerilla Toss

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2017/06/unnamed-25-1498748177-640x640.jpg

Eucalyptus - Avey Tare

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2494425921_10.jpg

Mirror to Make You - Natural Velvet

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2017/02/Xiu-Xiu-Forget-1487608605-608x604.png

FORGET - Xiu Xiu

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/433410/large/Kaitlyn_Aurelia_Smith_-_The_Kid___WV170.jpg

The Kid - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 September 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link

woops sorry for the double on Guerilla Toss, they're worth it tho

― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 September 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link

those are great!

― niels, Thursday, 28 September 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper:
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2017/10/Bell-Witch-Mirror-Reaper-1508185635.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link

that's great

― nxd, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link

yeah that rules!

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link

I think we live in the best era for metal cover art since the 1980s right now.

― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 19 October 2017 05:38 (six years ago) link

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1118/4068/products/fever_ray_plunge_69c2dd64-9e4c-4bc9-9f81-0fcd0b6ab040_grande.jpg?v=1509009413

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 October 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link

Have never listened to Fever Ray but definitely will listen to this album because that cover is fucking sick.

― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/10/25/shamircover_sq-c9f374cedb491a399b45b6c78dc20d1b4a7af6b5-s500-c85.jpg

― "the fgti incident?" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link

Oh hell yeah, that one too

― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link

http://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201796/rs_600x600-171006044708-600.the-thrill-of-it-all-sam-smith.10517.jpg

― "the fgti incident?" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 2 November 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link

Slowly becoming Jude Law

― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 2 November 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link

The Thrill of Jude Law

― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Friday, 3 November 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link

https://a.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2017/mo-epilogue.jpg

― willem, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 09:20 (six years ago) link

four weeks pass...

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2017/06/Trapped-Under-Ice-Heatwave-1496846366-640x640.jpg

― niels, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 13:16 (six years ago) link

Trapped Under Ice - Heatwave

― niels, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/7t4ruKq.jpg

total control
laughing at the system

― Karl Malone, Friday, 8 December 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link

sick

― flappy bird, Friday, 8 December 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link

good album too

― na (NA), Friday, 8 December 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link

http://www.xxlmag.com/files/2017/10/chief-keef-the-dedication.jpg

― Ludo, Monday, 11 December 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81kfrzRyP3L._SL1258_.jpg

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 11 December 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link

Ok, got a little confused and thought that the surviving members of Blind Melon had a role in producing the Chief Keef record.

― how's life, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link

Hah - I thought it was the 'listening to' thread! What a putz. Can someone delete plz?

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 09:17 (six years ago) link

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