Noteworthy album covers of 2011

http://i.imgur.com/PEG9C.jpg

new concept for 2k11 -- you decide whether they are 'good'/'crap' etc

can't say I like that one

kinda cover connections w/ m83

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_twNrgOrZnXQ/TMBLAXvQXeI/AAAAAAAAAlA/MFW5VPmuqWw/s1600/m83saturdays.jpg

'crap' xxp

well done for combining actually good and bad for next year

i agree

Idea for combination thread, 'good'
Cover, also 'good' (I like everything about it tbh, the border, the text placement, the colors...v nice)

do u like the photoshop effects?

The translucent bird? It probably could've been better done, but it was a nice idea.

I like dis one.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TQqkEctxTnI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/ZX8eJLS0kfk/o3211132.jpg

2011 - year of birds?

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/6b19a5c8.jpg

the peej harvey cover is nice but it reminds me of a recent book cover, can't remember which one

Is it...

http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/oh_the_glory_of_it_all_1.large.jpg

pj harvey a bit like 'oversteps', but w/ some squiggly birds and a title

I appreciate how this could've been finalized, but don't like the actual final product.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TQqm1Sz7SMI/AAAAAAAAAOY/6JpM9TE-y0Q/wyeoak.jpg

Like, they could've gone in a much more Vaughan Oliver/4AD direction with it, but instead chose to go minimalist with the text...except the typeface is urgly.

Is it...

http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/oh_the_glory_of_it_all_1.large.jpg

― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:53 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

yesssssss that one plus another one i also can't think

This design is exquisite, but also very hard to look at.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TQtWk0cKxqI/AAAAAAAAAOg/q6nV_m4sVfk/s512/toroymoi-underneath-the-pine-cover-art.jpg

http://www.riotseason.com/SHITTERSTEXAS.jpg

still not bored of 'brightly lit colour shot of poetically mundane landscape' type album covers, realise that many may feel differently

yeah i like it, also like vernac gothic script on records that don't actually sound like burzum

does look like it was taken around march/early april when everything seems green but it's actually not very warm

I wish it had just a little bit of desaturation or maybe some oversaturation. Something. As it is, it just looks like a photo someone posted on Facebook and someone else dropped some type on.

I can't tell if that PJ Harvey cover reminds me more of Wilco or Screamo. Either way, it stinks.

xp that new Toro y Moi cover seems to be very controversial among the "indie circles", but personally I love it (esp. that warm colour palette) and do not really understand all the hate it gets

I'd like it more w/o the square I think

Peej cover reminded me of lots of Leaf Records artwork, which is done by some dudes called Non-Format who, on investigation, did in fact do the book jacket posted upthread

that toro y moi cover is rad

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TQzDqat4tCI/AAAAAAAAAOo/S2rgcE3HCdQ/asobiseksu.jpg

At first, I was all "what a rip-off!" But it turns out that Vaughan Oliver actually did create this for the band, in which case I say "you're repeating yourself, sir!"

ha wait until you hear the album then, these guys are like a Sealed Knot Society of shoegaze indie

I just listened to it this morning. I really dug their early stuff, but they've lost the plot along the way.

Sealed Knot Society of shoegaze indie

can't be bothered to change my DN again but just wanna acknowledge this

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w6w6Mq5s-AM/TPVwz_7JOoI/AAAAAAAACNY/JsLJu4voG8s/s1600/LFAT_Video_TomTomClub_GeniusOfLove.jpg

smh

title made me lol at least

everybody knows that the mid-90s cheaply-done bootleg CD look is a good one.

I wish it had just a little bit of desaturation or maybe some oversaturation. Something. As it is, it just looks like a photo someone posted on Facebook and someone else dropped some type on.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, December 17, 2010 9:18 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

yeah but it becomes awesome by virtue of someone framing it onto a CD - r. mutt etc.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_etS1LYCvhYo/TQUSj2lq05I/AAAAAAAAAoI/Q6W1lnlxjwA/s400/Computers_and_Blues_Cover.jpg

Would love to see the messy results of that lighter being sparked

At first, I was all "what a rip-off!" But it turns out that Vaughan Oliver actually did create this for the band, in which case I say "you're repeating yourself, sir!"

i like the asobi seksu cover but it SCREAMS early 90s pale saints, lush, his name is alive, etc. + anything 4AD (which is precisely why it succeeds)

does even the streets care about the streets anymore?

I must confess the PJ Harvey first brought to mind:
http://i40.tinypic.com/315l7ar.jpg

http://cdn.nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/KRSCover-450x450.jpg

show having second thoughts abt the whole enterprise

egad

The Toro y Moi is awesome, sexy and Cronenberg's The Fly at once. That tangerine or whatever that is looks like totally hot gross guy eating some poor live aquatic thing, it's disturbing. And those colors!

the asobi cover is totally phoned in, it's sad when a great designer does something that looks like a parody of their own work

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TSNR1k9t-KI/AAAAAAAAAP8/RzmCGm4llQ0/pienfeith-danceontime.jpg

itt: ppl defacing their own chillwave/deburghwave covers with mspaint scribbles

w dance on

that toro cover freaks me out. ew.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TSn8z8XSCOI/AAAAAAAAARU/pUnHqSlviS4/s512/LLAlbumCover.jpg

This might be slightly overdistressed, but I still dig the feel of it.

Is that Streets cover a photo of the Zigguart halls of residence at the UEA?

Hate the Toro y Moi.

Like this one:

http://www.ssgmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Cut-Copy-album-cover.jpg

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/heckerlp452.jpg

or:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/heckerlp452.jpg

holy shit @ that cut copy one, that's pretty great

cut copy cover is straight rip of climax blues band cover

http://www.thegreat80s.com/images/albums/climaxbluesband-FlyingTheFlag.jpg

It's actually a Tsunehisa Kimura photomontage that they just adapted, so whatevs.

haha

Lol just saying "not noteworthy" because I see the CBB LP everywhere.. Just kind of an obvious rip I dunno lol

Ha, it appears the cover of the Streets album was taken at my alma mater.

that's uea, no? it's kinda as unspectacular a photo as you could take of the pyramids, if so.

Yeah, it's UEA. I actually quite like the cover, divorced of context.

http://sunonthesand.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Wire-Red-Barked-Tree.jpg

Wire: Red Barked Tree

It's a nice cover but a terrible title.

they spelled "Wine" wrong

Posted mainly bcs of thing that struck me on playing the album for 1st time on way to work this morning: cover works well enough seen on small handheld phone-type device.

i love this one

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/pandabear.jpg

Who is that?

Panda Bear.

This one's kind of silly, but I like it anyway.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TTCsqOSPDsI/AAAAAAAAASE/9_YZ1-as_FQ/thosedancingdays.jpg

that's not the panda bear cover by the way

I didn't think it was. It's just a cropped photo.

I think the real Panda Bear cover is a charcoal drawing or something iirc.

the above > every potential album ocver panda has yet to consider

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sUtyx4_Y8PM/TSTV12MjEXI/AAAAAAAADk0/SkPkCGurds8/s1600/the%2Bjoy%2Bformidable.jpg

The Joy Formidable

I love the hell out of that band, but their cover art continues to be ass.

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2010/11/04/design-as-virus-13-tsunehisa-kimura/

xp I think the band are pretty lame but that cover is sweet

will we ever see eye to eye Johnny Fever

http://i51.tinypic.com/2pzmfyq.jpg

I kinda like the image but the font sucks right there.

No, that's just about right

http://www.boiseweekly.com/images/blogimages/2011/01/05/1294271097-iron-and-wine-kiss-each-other-clean-cover-art.jpg

(Iron and Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean)

i like both of those covers. wouldn't want to hear the iron & wine music and have that ruin my enjoyment of the cover, though. the seefeel cover makes me think the album's going to be ~~~fucking HEAVY~~~ (looks like a metal cover!), would love for that to be true...

http://i51.tinypic.com/zvy0i0.jpg

looks like a graphic from late bbc2 favourite 'business lunch'

which i guess kinda works if they think they can still make bitter snipes at commodity fetishism after work as industry execs etc for 30 years

[working]

business lunch ended? :(

yeah, except it was called working lunch (oops)

ha oh yeah. poor unemployed frumpy fat dude, i liked you more than adrian chiles.

That GOF cover is horrid. Is the Iron & Wine one a crayon and scraped black paint job? If so, good effort.

Nice fake lens flare

if you like fake lens flare

gang of four cover (which is AWFUL) reminds me of this, which is not so bad

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/stereolab/album-aluminum-tunes-switched-on-vol-3.jpg

wtf is that toro y moi cover supposed to be??

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/fandgdebutalbumcoverart452.jpg

<3

Some hideousness:

http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-God-Particle-320x320.jpg
http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Other-Side-Of-320x320.jpg

Rather like this, though http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/folder3-320x320.jpg

http://www.csindy.com/images/blogimages/2010/12/14/1292366823-contentcan.jpeg

artwork for almost all the madlib medicine show stuff has been fantastic, imo

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/3bbcb3c6c475dd792aaa6e3cdcebf0e5.jpg

http://www.drawuslines.com/wp-content/themes/tma/images/bg/1900s_LP-e1288910175363.jpg

Would have been kinda neat if it wasn't for the fucking gradient.

The gradient and light source seem at odds.

diggin' this cover

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2010-11/1290577239_sofrito-tropical-discotheque.jpg

I like that too.

^ what is that ribbon lp?

Someone called the 1900's I think.

Yeah, I have no idea who they are, but it got reviewed in Pitchfork yesterday.

artwork for almost all the madlib medicine show stuff has been fantastic, imo

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/3bbcb3c6c475dd792aaa6e3cdcebf0e5.jpg

― ilxor, Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:58 AM (6 days ago)

funny, i posted this about a week ago-- now there's a pfork feature on same (prolly coincidence?)

worth a read btw

http://pitchfork.com/news/41186-take-cover-imadlib-medicine-showi

1900s are a psych-pop band from Chicago. that cover is terrible.

maybe more baroque-pop?

nah ilxor you are the tastemaker pitchfork follow. gonna do an awkward feature about hearing the jazz canon for the first time starting in november where jess harvell comes across a little 1950s equiv of lil-wayne-onion-cover-i-seemingly-can't-find-atm.jpg

awesome, can't wait

really tho, just sayin there are pfork writers who read ilm & the timing is such that someone could've seen the img post 6 days ago, gone "hey those are great covers" and contacted/interviewed the guy in recent days

just sayin

also pfork writers who listen to madlib

didn't know they existed-- i don't recall pfork reviewing any of the 10 medicine show releases last year

or oh i dunno, the badu record?

"hello i am d4vid dr4ke, professional rap critic with a particular love of musicians out of california and i was all 'madvillian, more like who?villain'"

really like the lettering on this

http://cdn.hmvdigital.ca/static/img/sleeveart/00/009/927/0000992797_500.jpg

http://www.punx.nl/images/cds/4658.jpg

lock thread

2k11 not exactly tearing it up on the covers front

Error Defence?

errrr
http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Tao-of-the-Dead-320x320.jpg

lol @ me ten years ago caring about that band.

OMG I love how awful that Trail of Dead cover is. I didn't think it was possible to sink below the cover with the dead-eyed CGI chick (So Divided), but they did. Well done. I actually still fuck with this band though, they have their moments.

just got this, horrible cover, somewhat decent album.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IO5NzUs%2BL._SS500_.jpg

wow that trail of dead cover is unbelievable

i am transfixed i cannot look away

It's like they're trying to market it specifically to blind people.

The last Trail of Dead cover wasn't too offensive but WTF is this a Chronicles of Narnia concept album?

i think i will be giving them another try in 2011 just in case that heralds their bounce back to top form with a steampunk fantasy concept album

best part is the Star Fox lookin' guy on the left hand side

i'm trying to construct the novel in my head out of that image now

http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/spiderwick_chronicles_ver2.jpg

The game based on the album:

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/6/942726_94802_front.jpg

I know I'm in an ever dwindling minority, but as I said earlier I still mess with AYWKUBTTOD, partially because how ridiculously OTT they are - in artwork, arrangements, even live. I saw them play like a 12:30 PM set at Lollapalooza the first year of its Chicago residency, and they played like they were in a dank club at two in the morning. Tore the shit out of their instruments (literally, towards the end of the set), spent half the time in the crowd (no small feat with the way the stage was set-up), and seemed to not give a fuck that they had a small crowd and a shitty time slot.

http://exclaim.ca/images/phil1.jpg

http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/images/B004H1AXR8/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8&n=301062&s=music
Deaf Center- Owl Splinters

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_legu7rv6OY1qzphzwo1_400.jpg

Lush came back? (ie: what's that?)

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/375631-deaf-center-owl-splinters-limited-vinyl-edition

I like that Big Eagle thing. I don't like the band name or album title or the font though.

It looks like the best Muslimgauze album cover.

I think that "Tao of the Dead" album looks pretty awesome, like a poster for a steampunk cartoon or comic book. (Possibly the reason I like it is that I've nothing against steampunk fiction, and I don't quite get why many ILXors seem to hate it.) Much better than the sort of album covers with a mundane, faded 1970s polaroid and an IKEA-friendly font, which seem to get a lot of praise in these threads.

http://70.32.78.35/sonicnews/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/syr9-web1-300x300.jpg

Uh...

http://cdon.eu/media-dynamic/images/product/music/album/image0/horses_and_high_heels-13014619-frntl.jpg

Amazing!

Not exactly a new direction for them, but the Demdike Stare "Tryptych" cover is rad:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZOvWNsSsL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Is the SY cover just a screengrab from 'Jossy's Giants'?

Just saw this Demdike Stare video, which totally puts their cover art aesthetic in motion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0EbN3aICI

Never sure how much depth there is to Demdike's pretentious/portentous schtick but the execution is A++.

^ yeah!

I'm guessing the SY one is a shot from the movie for which the album serves as a soundtrack.

Why isn't that Marianne Faithfull album called Horses and High Heels and Seaside and Abundant Flowers?

Also, why does it say "Horses" when there clearly only one single horse? I mean, everything else is on the nose obvious, so that seems like a major fuck up.

You don't see the other horse drowning in the sea?

I think those are rocks. But I did just notice one in the vegetation.

Several horses in the vegetation (well, two, possibly more) and one in the sea foam.

Sneaky damn horses.

(Is the big cluster of pink/purple flowers on the right-hand side an upside horse?)

Is the album cover better or worse now that's been discovered to be a game of "find the horses"?

Cloud horse!

Ha, my previous post was meant to be joke, I hadn't noticed there actually are hidden horses in the pic.

Yeah, that kind of resembles yet ANOTHER horse.

Playing "find the horses" at least makes it remarkable, but I still don't know that it's very good.

I really like that cover picture. Reminds me of young adult fiction books for horse fan girls. And I love how there's a horse for each element in the pic: plant horse, water horse, air horse... Though it should have a sand horse too to make it complete. (Unless the real horse walking in the sand counts as "sand horse"?)

SOme of that artist's other work is pretty O_O, don't want to sully this thread with it though. Apparently he did some cover art for Prince too, but I can't quite figure out what.

http://www.jimwarren.com/site/album/Fine_Art/index.php

Well, at least we now know the name of that piece is "Seven Horses," so we just have to find them all.

I've only got five, so I'm assuming that the last two were drowned.

Apparently he did some cover art for Prince too, but I can't quite figure out what.

Maybe this one?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/princehorse.jpg

I checked and the Prince thing turns out to be this:

http://lcart3.narod.ru/image/fantasy/jim_warren/Jim_Warren_Around_the_World_in_a_Day.jpg

^ original cover art for Around The World In A Day btw

Oh wow, I'm not sure if that's actually better or horribly worse than the picture they ended up using for ATWIAD.

Also, the actual album cover has pretty much all the same elements as Warren's version (which makes sense, since they images are based on the song titles and lyrics), but the bearded man hugging a tiger is missing. I wonder what happened with that?

any great artwork prince ever had was by accident, wasn't it?

Is the tiger hugglez from one of the songs on the album?

my old roommate had the last trail of dead album & the artwork was really cool -- singer drew it by hand & it flowed all the way throughout the booklet iirc

the new one is weezer style trolling of course

pretty impressive drawing imo

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/12703-the-century-of-self.jpg

Yeah I wasn't too impressed w/ that album overall but I think that's one of their, uh, better covers.

doing it all with a blue biro was unfortunate tho

Reminiscent of Mansun's Six, that whole sorceror's apprentice vibe.

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Pop-Ambient.jpg

^ewww

Love the Tim Hecker sleeve, really draws me in. Someone's put up a video montagey thing for 'The Piano Drop' on the YouTube which utilises similar (same source?) imagery.

Here's the real Panda Bear cover.

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/tomboy452cov.jpg

It's not particularly noteworthy, imo.

someones been watching the crow

http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Party-Store.jpg

That cover is pretty great - I didn't know who it was at first but knew that they had to be from Michigan.

http://www.maxumi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/juniorsanchez4-290x290.jpg

...................................

looooooooooool

http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kueb3lb5h51qzv9mho1_500.jpg

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/fleetfoxes_1.jpg

Not all that different from the Trail of Dead cover, actually.

Unlike that Trail of Dead cover, though, that's something I would probably at least pick up and look at if I browsing through old records in the store.

uhhhhh

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/meatpuppets_1.jpg

lol what

the one trip maker posted is awesome

They've made some bad choices in their time.
xpost
It's the new Dirtbombs all techno covers record.

Oh no the Meat Puppets :(

xp oooh looking forward to hearing that, great cover too!

meat puppets reminds me of this saga: http://images.theage.com.au/2008/08/15/181775/420swirl-420x0.jpg

Can't believe this hasn't turned up yet:

http://shop.relapse.com/dbimages/sleeves/escapevelocity_362.jpg

Asses + Delorean in 2011 = not a damn original element about it.

NEW ZOMBI ALBUM<?? WANT!!

meat puppets reminds me of this saga: http://images.theage.com.au/2008/08/15/181775/420swirl-420x0.jpg

― talk talk talk (diamonddave85), Monday, 31 January 2011 22:11 (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah I was gonna say the only ppl who use that effect = the paedo from that story and husbands uploading photos of their wives to amateur porn sites (as is my understanding)

http://www.peekaboorecords.com/images/news/2010/octopus_project_hexadecagon.jpg

yikes

2011: The Year of Thinking Maybe Cocorosie Covers Weren't That Bad Compared

hate this headache inducing psychedelic luke abbott thing

http://www.bordercommunity.com/borderbooking/wpblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/luke-abbott-trans-forest-alignmentSMALL3.jpg

Oh wow. New ZOMBI coming up. That is right now my most anticipated album of the year

http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Shapeshifting-320x291.jpg

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

Low - C'mon

No one values typography anymore. ;_;

that toro y moi cover is revolting -- you can see the sweat glistening on the skin in between the sparse mustache hairs wtf!

Rather like the new Twilight Singers one

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B004GHYC1G.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

No one values typography anymore. ;_;

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 23:58 (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is both kind of otm and also a godsend - tons of record covers have been ruined by it (i'm too hungover to think of examples)

yep, last year's Swans album was devoid of front cover lettering and looked all the better for it.

into it

http://lastgasstation.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/holyghost_cover.jpg

that's like a lost futureheads cover

This is from 2005 but I'm posting it just to put the typography complaints in perspective

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-%2B3ClKt%2BL._SS400_.jpg

http://i53.tinypic.com/2pte7wj.jpg

oops

http://i53.tinypic.com/2pte7wj.jpg

is mimi parker in the flaming lips now?

close! she's in animal collective

ooooh i like this one

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/raveonettes.jpg

reminds me of early 00s screamo aesthetic

cover connections w/ strokes

wooooooow loving this

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/jmascis.jpg

On trend this week: blurry people. All from the Piccadilly Records "Record of the Week" section:

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/imgrec/sl-74167.jpg
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/imgrec/sl-74193.jpg
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/imgrec/sl-74058.jpg

J. Mascis reminding me of this:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2010/11/17/super_meat_boy_2.jpg

hahahahaha

ghostpoet must be worse than hitler

Like this one because I want to know what's on the other side of the sand dune:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TVUUZ5o6sYI/AAAAAAAAAcI/yaZTq_GAbiU/memband-ohmydays.jpg

More sand.

Sorry about ruining the cover for you.

http://www.juliancasablancas.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/The-Strokes-ANGLES-cover-300x300.jpg

fucking... seriously?

Goin' for that kind of The Bobs/Korgis vibe. I like it!

lol... *rubs eyes*

That is fantastic, love it!

I know this is pretty basic, but I don't think I could possibly love it more than I do now (until I hear it, anyway)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/rome_1.jpg

would have prefered Rome without all the black text.

The supplemental type really makes it feel like a soundtrack album from 1969, though.

That's a nice cover, reminds me of another soundtrack album:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/rome_1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/the-crow.jpg

ouch

http://cdn.rap-up.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fame-cover.jpg

omfg that last one, please say it's at least an unofficial mixtape rather than sanctioned artwork for a proper album

what is that baby about?!

ughhhh that fucking guy.

Should've named it G.T.F.O. of the World. Because he should.

'F.A.M.E' , like there's anything less appealing than a Chris Brown concept album about the perils of life as a celebrity. "FORGIVING ALL MY ENEMIES"

The only thing missing from that art is a big pacifier in his mouth, the big fucking pouty baby.

he's going for the deviantart massive

such a mean facial expression is surely unwise tho

the cover of his recent single was pretty wtf in a different way

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HJmhuhpF10g/TMcExui2LAI/AAAAAAAAAGs/7THzI4fXqWI/s320/yeah-yeah-yeah-chris-brown-300x300.jpg

everyone otm, fuck this guy

"facing another makeover enhancement"

Haven't heard this, but I really like the cover

http://nowagainrecords.com/up/DimliteMHWASRegular.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_C36bJT-_Dcw/TUP5QR5cYMI/AAAAAAAAAME/MdxNYckrMfo/s320/ALBUM_SIGNED_OFF2-1024x1024.jpg

never even knowingly heard this guy but his whole aesthetic makes me want to hit things

Makes me think of Bakesale.

Toilet Is My Friend

That Dimlite one looks a little like 'The Punch Line'

Yeah, that or Meat Puppets II.

It's so magnanimous of Chris Brown to forgive all his enemies like that.

i actually lol'd at the CHRIS BROWN cover.

that kid's taste is pricelessly awful

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MEzcNaetL._SS500_.jpg

its like a better version of caribou cover.. lose the text tho

Chaim reminds me of this
http://funkyimg.com/u2/472/535/000-dieselboy-substance_d-_huma8024_-2cd-2008.jpg

Did that link not work?

http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/83/SubstanceD.jpg

circle pattern artwork is the new indie bands with wolf in their name imo

So indie albums of the 2010s look like techno albums of the 1990s?

http://img15.nnm.ru/7/7/f/7/f/77f7f79a8116292b3d6651b88cabbd9d_full.jpg

Circles are so versatile, though. As long as you're doing something cool with it, I don't mind the ubiquity.

always want a triangle in the centre, seeing as these things are always contained within a square anyway

Chaim isn't an indie album fwiw, it's on Bpitch Control xp

http://theloopdetroit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/juanatkins-savremix580x580.jpg

I've grown a little weary of the 70s new age/fantasy cover art revival, but I have to make an exception here. THAT IS BADASS.

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif
yowza

hmm does this work?
http://theband.hiof.no/band_pictures/how_to_become_clairvoyant_official.jpg

love the last 2

I didn't know Robbie Robertson from Spider-Man made music too!

lol @ this one

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/elbow.jpg

yellow handbag on bearskin rug?

elbow just weren't interesting enough for the landfill thread

elbow just aren't interesting enough for the world

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sUtyx4_Y8PM/TRj0KwmhjwI/AAAAAAAADkA/moOBvQNyIu8/s1600/munch.jpg

Munch Munch's Double Vision, oddly compelling.

I like that.

http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Baroque-Primitiva-310x320.jpg
Album's not especially amazing, though

http://cdon.fi/media-dynamic/images/product/music/album/image0/jou_jou-13666526-frntl.jpg

This came out today, it's the latest album by the Finnish rapper Asa. When I first saw the cover I didn't think it was great, but I'm warming up to it.

squirrel, mouse and snake. is the other one a mole peeking out of the ground? if so, yes FTW

Yeah, it's a mole. The T-shirt that came with the album even has a hip hop version of the famous Czech mole:

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/228/paita.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61qHWVCD6mL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Munch Munch reminds me of this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/Rpq6hBT0-rI/AAAAAAAACzk/dUkgPRR4M50/s400/Wire-DocumentAndEyeWitness.jpeg

http://potholesinmyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/122010-TalibKweli-GutterRainbows-Artwork.jpg

Last year's Japanese cover:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TFBp8yq9lN0/TSPa2myOejI/AAAAAAAAKuU/2tEHclX6dos/s200/mike_watt_hyphenated_man.jpg

This year's U.S. cover, drawn by (who else?) Raymond Pettibon, which I just picked up today:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/Hyphenated-man-clenched-cd-cover.jpg/220px-Hyphenated-man-clenched-cd-cover.jpg

Supposed U.S. Cover as found on AMG:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drp500/p527/p52721pefuf.jpg

http://nahright.com/news/2011/02/26/wiz-khalifa-rolling-papers-cover/wiz-khalifa-rolling-papers/

whoops

http://cdn.nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Wiz-Khalifa-Rolling-Papers.png

design/concept is cool but the photo looks absolutely nothing like wiz, and he has a pretty distinctive face

also not his distinctive glasses! and also calling yr record "rolling papers" a year after the now getting famous domo genesis = nagl.

I like the font they used for his name, even if it's a little Disneyish.

http://cdn.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/youngldomokun.jpg

that's offensive as fuck

Elbow are the sort of band you could slip into a coma from merely thinking about

Elbow are the sort of band you could slip into a coma from merely thinking about

I lol'd.

maybe it's b/c those clash with my indie sensibilities (abstract, aged photo: no text) but the two above i rly see little to get excited for. they're just slightly above generic to me. i'm almost gonna daresay that any kanye artwork beats those. (just did)

I like the Wiz one, shrug at the Young L one (though the besparkled Domo-Kun is a nice touch).

lol at panda bear's single on kompakt

http://cdn02.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/PANDA-BEAR-SURFERS-HYMN-7-575x575.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2955/thosedarlinsscrewsgetlo.jpg

yes. finger in nose ftw.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TXE_ZWxZkiI/AAAAAAAAAfs/Ht13bsBCDu4/jenscarelius2011.jpg

uhhhh lord this is a bad one

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HByI0Eg0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://truecultheavymetal.com/media/blogs/wretchedspawn/.evocache/graveyardalbum.jpg/fit-400x320.jpg

good band, don't actually sound like Dodgy as this horrid sleeve implies

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TXbNcidkWuI/AAAAAAAAAho/BOyR_Ggeyjk/s512/vm-satanigatan.jpg

love it

<3

Apparently "Satan I Gatan" in Swedish translates to "Satan in the Streets," and that may end up being one of my favorite album titles of the year.

Def WOTY contender amirite

http://music.is-amazing.com/sites/music.is-amazing.com/files/imagecache/Covers/covers/31knots.jpg

I should SB you for that Johnny Fever, I almost barfed my dinner

oof! sorry bout that.

Apparently "Satan I Gatan" in Swedish translates to "Satan in the Streets," and that may end up being one of my favorite album titles of the year.

It's Satan in the Street, actually - "gatan" is singular, not plural. But close enough.

It's also the title of a song on Graham Coxon's 2nd solo album.

OH YEAH

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/jamiewoon_1.jpg

Pien Feith's new album, "Dance In Me".... Oh, (looks more closely), it's "Dance On Me".

Damn. I liked it better the first way....

http://images.hitfix.com/photos/641824/Exene-Cervenka--The-Excitement-of-Maybe_event_main.jpg

exene cervenka. kinda sweet from the ex-X punk rocker

don't know any better thread to mention this in: 7 of the last ten albums Pitchfork gave 'best new music' to have black & white or primarily gray cover art, which kinda weirded me out: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/best/albums/

Low-color/b&w is all the rage in design this year, just like polaroids/found photos have been for the last couple years.

The Pien Feith album is actually Dance on Time, but whatevs. xp

new Junior Boys cover art is supposedly a photograph taken in Shanghai but imho just looks like a really bad computer-generated graphic c. 1997, sorry guys... not feelin it at all

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/juniorbooys.jpg

new woods -- i dig

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/woods_1.jpg

based god always has great art

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/lilb_4.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-mm4yota2xk/TPTCy8ZWxjI/AAAAAAAAALQ/_7zSFBUauBU/s1600/156705_179255542091635_122869907730199_688984_1167519_n.jpg

those lil b covers are HORRIBLE, wtf

woods is O_O stunning awesome holy hell need to hear asap

disagree, they're amazing. Hip hop Jesus thing is overdone, nevertheless that cover is still great. Lil B as Elizabeth I... words fail me, but awesome.

>> Pien Feith's new album, "Dance In Me".... Oh, (looks more closely), it's "Dance On Me".
>> Damn. I liked it better the first way....

> The Pien Feith album is actually Dance on Time, but whatevs.

Now I like it even less....

You know all those "misheard lyrics" threads? Maybe we should have a Misread Album Titles thread....

re junior boys - thomas hetherwick's uk pavilion at the shanghai expo

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2010/03/dzn_SHANGHAI-EXPO-BY-THOMAS-HEATHERWICK-2.jpg

^that would be a much better cover

i agree. apart from the debut the junior boys are not good at covers.

junior boys do not make the kind of music that begs to have a construction worker on the cover

http://www.thevaccines.co.uk/media/gallery_images/lightbox/4.jpg

I love when Columbia releases bring back the little label insignia thing on the front cover art retro-style. Also, good composition on this one in general.

I like that cover. So are The Vaccines actually any good or just another shit NME hype band?

I think they're great, except for their "hey lookit us!" single, "Post Break-Up Sex" (which is deplorable. The rest of the album is super.

http://i.imgur.com/rV3T5.jpg

love this one
http://exclaim.ca/images/seefeel.jpg

http://metalwarez.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Turisas-Stand-Up-and-Fight-Single-2011.jpg

ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner

nice.
also: haven't seen you in a minute, Alex!

left-handed vikings ftw

Oh Finland

http://andandawii.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/turisas.jpg http://yle.fi/ecepic/archive/00181/turisas_ToniSalmine_181339b.jpg

Official promo pics of Turisas you seen in local music mags are often pretty funny too... Still, gotta give props for them for presenting the sole woman as a fierce Viking warrior too, and not as a leather babe, which seems to be more common with metal bands with one female member.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li1t93cpY71qdzlqpo1_500.jpg

xp name one metal band that do that please.

Sorry, I'm not interested enough in metal to remember the names, but I've seen the pics.

yawn

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/deathcabforcutie.jpg

shootin for twitter buzz there

what, you expected a death cab album cover to be interesting?

Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer have both been quoted as saying that the album will be "a much less guitar-centric album than we’ve ever made before," and likened the record to Another Green World by Brian Eno.

I actually like a couple DCFC albums, but, c'mon, lol.

we have the facts and we're voting shut the fuck up

new Rene Hell

http://static.boomkat.com/images/421587/333.jpg

I enjoy that one except I don't understand the parking lot at the bottom of the photo

She's a giant and she's about to slice up some Hondas.

Come on down to Folsom Lake Honda where the 50 ft woman is SLASHING prices!

http://magiska.vlsweb.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DLYI.jpg

album is called "dress like your idols"

Are those supposed to be album cover pastiches? I know the

I know the middle one is Velvet Underground, but I don't recognize the others.

Does the one in the middle of the botton row refer to "Hand on the Torch" by US3?

middle bottom row is Eliot Smith; top left is Built to Spill, bottom right maybe Pearl Jam? I feel like Arcade Fire does the swirly stuff on the top right album but don't really know their work.

built to spill, ramones, ?
jon spencer blues explosion, vu, the sonics
pearl jam, elliot smith, pavement

i can't tell whether the cover is cute or embarrassing tbh

Well Pearl Jam are in there

Horrific.

album cover = effective warning shot to stay the fuck away

top right is Long Winters

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/Whenipretendtofall.jpg

ALBUM JUDGED BY COVER, FILM AT 11

That Boat band had better be reallllly fucking good, with that album cover.

Love the album cover. Lots of balls, cute as fuck. Band probably sucks, news at 11.

Don't know who she is or what she sounds like, but I like this

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TYEexOqinGI/AAAAAAAAAjU/UVoob_9OI6Q/s400/Snowglobe-Jesca%20Hoop.jpg

well duh :)

Dunno if it's just me, but the font/existence of text totally ruins it

p cool otherwise

This is definitely diy indie schmindie design, but I like it more than most

http://mergerecords.com/cache/6/66/66a/66a9/phpThumb_cache_mergerecords.com_src66a9cc10f6c72bf08e026278a819277c_par2be6790ed83566b5a06a17bb9bce2616_dat1298386262.jpeg

http://www.sparkups.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/gang-gang-dance-eye-contact-cover.jpg

http://cdn.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Planningtorock_W.jpg

http://www.thronesanddominions.com/press/Angels_cover_medium.jpg

late 2010, so it doesn't really belong, but screw it, posting anyway:

http://www.igetrvng.com/uploads/image.php/82_laurelhalo_kingfelixep_digicover.jpg?width=516&height=516px&image=/uploads/82_laurelhalo_kingfelixep_digicover.jpg

love that TNV one

love those last two. whats the last one?

Laurel Halo's King Felix EP, on Hippos In Tanks. It's a great record too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvFJZT_YjM&feature=related

Pretty sure that's Os Mutantes on the TNV cover. Nice.

love that TNV one

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new Lucinda Williams seems to have two different covers depending on whether you go for the regular or the "deluxe" edition, can't say I'm particularly enamoured of either of them:

http://freelyricshut.com/covers/Lucinda-Williams---Blessed-Lyrics.jpg
http://newsodrome.com/blues_news/album-review-lucinda-williams-blessed-24239996.jpg

http://static.boomkat.com/images/423431/333.jpg

love the water-jewelled insect

http://pixhost.info/avaxhome/b2/84/001a84b2.jpeg

That'd be an alright cover if it didn't have the text that says 'toploader' on it.

isn't that the Geirbot?

why u make Geirbot cry?

insufficient melodics duh

Ewww is that a robot with a stiffy?

don't even known how you got that

Wish I could unsee it tbh

Ewww is that a robot with a stiffy?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513z8kxUZeL._SS500_.jpg

So many things to hate about that.

makes me angry, reminds me of hipster girls with tiger face tshirts

also bearsuit suck

and obv that tiger is not a bear and it isn't funny it is just, you look at the cover and say nope rong sorry

For me it's mostly that they gave the tiger "human" eyes, and that just recalls the furry/beast-human hybrid art that's all over the internet (and ALL of it is ridiculous).

But also the font, which sucks. (<--that's for DJP)

Ugh the eye thing is gross...didn't notice that

saw this one at a distance... and thought it said "Autotuned Is Now" :/

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WJkV8Pm-L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

lol I can't read it as anything else now

also bearsuit suck

― loser beam (electricsound), Sunday, March 20, 2011 10:00 PM (Yesterday)

No they don't.

and obv that tiger is not a bear and it isn't funny it is just, you look at the cover and say nope rong sorry

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So, wait, you think all bands need to have their album covers referring to their band name? Are you insane?

I have to say I don't really think the cover is that interesting; I'm not sure how it's "noteworthy" on either the good or bad scale.

no I'm just saying that something about that picture and that bandname, in that instance, it kinda bugs me

but yes, I am insane

love this
http://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000003029433-wv38kh-crop.jpg

nsfw!!

If that nipple was the VERY FIRST thing you saw when looking at that cover, you're awesome. I didn't even realize the composition of the photo until the second time I looked at it.

love weeknd & tnv

(I'm a typography nerd and was awed by the top half)

I am a pervert and all I saw was nipple

but it's a great cover

Thought this one had been posted here but I guess not.
http://www.redefinemag.com/news/Moon-Duo.jpg

I'd have to stop myself from solving the maze, because the cover would have writing/lines all over it in no time.

Have you solved the one inside Their Satanic Majesties Request?

I have not ever owned that on vinyl.

(or cd or cassette, for that matter)

You know it's Geir's favorite Stones album!

No they don't.

they didn't used to, but i hate them now.

you know what should be posted on here? the pains of being pure at heart.

The Gift / Explode (haven't heard it, love the cover)
http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Explosion-320x320.jpg

looks like a teletubby explosion!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S2sh2pBhu5g/TWc2t1FyL0I/AAAAAAAABsY/xFs4raerAWg/s1600/laced.jpg

Has this one not been posted yet, or was it in the 2010 thread already? Either way, I think it's great:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/woundedrhymes634.jpg

Exxcited for the new Horseshit! and TNV!

xp I posted the Lykke Li way upthread. Good enough to be posted twice imo!

The faux ringwear on the Psychedelic Horseshit is overdone. DON'T OVERDO YOUR FAUX RINGWEAR!

This seems a little...uh, not sure.

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/195856_206880849324412_110084682337363_788457_8097871_n.jpg

Friendly Parrot

Looks like a perfume ad

^^ that one is awful

:/

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/battles_1.jpg

Ugh.

lol.

ew

pokemon took a dump on our record sorry y'all

I wonder if they spent a long time coming up with that.

i could swallow a pack of bubble yum and "come up" with that in about five minutes

also this is totally dumb because i know it's 2011 and cds/records don't really matter anymore but it bugs me that the image doesn't appear to be square (ie it's taller than it is wide)

thought the david lynch co-op w/ duran duran thing was kinda strange... now they've allowed him to fuck with their album artwork?

it bugs me that the image doesn't appear to be square

This always bugs me too. It happens a lot in cases where a physical cd will be released in non-jewel case packaging, making the art not squared, and then having to dig around in the depths of the internet to find a scan of the vinyl sleeve (if it was fortunate enough to be released on vinyl) just so I can have a square image to put in my iPod or upload to last.fm or whathaveyou.

I dig the battles one actually

http://www.utechrecords.com/Misc/GAOP.jpg

http://www.utechrecords.com/Misc/SOTE.jpg

that first one gives me a headache
I like the second one tho

yeah i'm torn about that first one. feel like its been done a lot and those colors aren't my thing but there is something trippy about it that i like.

locrian album on utech was my fave cover of 2010 and they are coming out with a vinyl version and i think i have to get it JUST for the cover. i mean i have the music already...

http://www.utechrecords.com/Misc/TCW_F.jpg

http://www.utechrecords.com/Misc/TCW_LP.jpg

Fact have got a feature up on the worst of the year so far:

http://www.factmag.com/2011/03/21/the-worst-sleeves-of-2011-so-far/

http://www.factmag.com/wp-content/gallery/worst-sleeves-of-2011-so-far/worst003-peter_.jpg

^ I laughed heartily at this

that acid house kings cover isn't that bad. if i were a big fan of the band i would love it.

Yeah, there are only a few that are out-and-out terrible.

The Moritz von Oswald one is p. bad, but I guess it follows on from their previous album.

^ can't avoid reading that album cover in anything but spartan-speak

man, the computer thing...ugh. DIY covers used to look charmingly shitty in the olden days. something about CDs or something. don't know what it is. i see hundreds of local self-released CDs every year and they are pretty much ALL terrible. and a lot of actual label releases have that same problem. they look like random flickr account pictures and terrible software lettering/fonts.

what is it about the lettering? it kills half the current album covers i see. there are some good type choices here, but in general...

really the only trend i can pick up is that the less attention drawn towards lettering, the more i end up liking the actual cover. if lettering is ever to take prominence, it should be sequestered away like here:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UMoebAEAL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
or here
http://www.ninebullets.net/wp-images/2009/PrettyHateMachine.jpg

i just generally dislike juxtaposition of any photograph with overlaying text. i'm really having a hard time thinking of exceptions.

i quite like the acid house kings cover

You're breaking this typography nerd's heart, kel. xp

http://www.factmag.com/wp-content/gallery/worst-sleeves-of-2011-so-far/worst005paul.jpg

I think this one is pretty cool.

I'm with Kelpolaris on the lettering thing; usually I feel that the less text there is on the cover, the better it looks. And the text should never be just on top of the pic, as it tends to mess up the picture. It looks much better when text is in its own box. The exception to this rule are the covers where the text is aesthetically integrated to the picture (like in the Super Paolo pic above), which can look nice. And of course there are some cool covers where the text is the picture, like with Daft Punk albums.

unless Photoshop 3 filter presets are now cool as kitsch, that cover is just really offensive

I'm pretty sure 99% of the people who buy records don't know about Photoshop 3 filter presets, nor do they judge a cover based on whether or not they are used in it.

I'm pretty sure you're wrong about the "99%" - especially in Super Paolo's case. Anyway, the Photoshop filter presets as graphic design kitsch was me being generous toward the designer of that cover. If it's not intentional it's just very poorly done.

I don't know from Photoshop, but that cover kinda sucks. Looks like a homemade cassingle from 1989

AND NOT IN A COOL WAY

kinda interesting to note that battles, or at least their marketing team, really thinks that album artwork really ... um, memorable or something
http://drownedinsound.com/news/4142291-battles-album-art-and-billboard-campaign-revealed-stream-ice-cream

personally if i had never seen that i would've thought it was pseudo-viral marketing for big league chew
http://mysocalledhealthlife.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/chew.jpg

It's silly-string, right? what's this "pink-bubblegum type stuff" crap? did these journalists have no childhoods?

Anyway, really sad about what has happened to Thrice, overall, and that album cover is no exception.

I like the Gravesand Orchestra Pits one, even though it only has two search results in google?

really sad about what has happened to Thrice, overall

i.e., they exist...?

staind dude goes country iirc

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51apak8vLKL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

would like it better if it didn't look stained

would like it better if it didn't look like a stock photo

so is it a city or a town. make your fucking mind up retard.

lol

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Tao_of_the_dead.jpg

Reminds me of:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/Labyrinth_ver2.jpg/220px-Labyrinth_ver2.jpg

The Japanese-only New Album by Boris -- what does it remind you of?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/New_Album_%28Boris%29.jpg

actually reminds me of ps2-era final fantasy games with that^, but i'm getting the sense that that you already have an answer in mind

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/littledragon_1.jpg

Awkward Family Photos

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wiB96aMwL._SS500_.jpg

little dragon is awwwwwful

if your album cover is gonna be 'lol meme' you gotta do something no one's ever done like when the klaxons put the cat in an astronaut suit

http://www.umstrum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Altrice.jpg

Altrice - Stem (Caribou's "Swim" remixed)

http://www.theroundtableonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/PatrickWolf.jpg

...yet you wonder why ppl hate patrick wolf? ;)

altrice cover is nice

man i adore that altrice one... sudden realization that not a lot of covers are hand-drawn, or at least in that style

haha @ilxor.

Patrick Wolf gotta be in the top bracket of awesomeness v. shitty album covers

acid house kings cover reminds me of the bit in "stella" where the guys couldn't answer the door because they were in a tableau.

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TY76wOPA4iI/AAAAAAAAAl8/87pMwVbeTQA/s605/38707547718517311699.jpg

Vaguely asian signifiers + helvetica = win!

http://i55.tinypic.com/302qvlv.jpg

if your album cover is gonna be 'lol meme' you gotta do something no one's ever done like when the klaxons put the cat in an astronaut suit

ILX would like to disagree with your statement:

"Imagine: your dog, cat, or other pet in full military regalia."

Vaguely asian signifiers + helvetica = win!

reeks of adobe illustrator n00b though

would like the little dragon one if all the photos were the same tone and the centre square was black just containing the logo with no thin outline or shadow.

patrick wolf should be positioned centrally not slightly to our left, and further away so you can see all of him (including presumably white shoes) with the text just underneath. don't like the elegant font/handwritten logo contrast either.

Patrick Wolf

it just screams sentimentality and pretension. and a bizarre infatuation with his terrible haircut and color. there's really nothing redeeming about it.

and god i hate his necklace

It makes one question why we collectively begged for our very own Oberst

all I think of is Black Swan

hatchback - zeus & apollo
http://www.musbest.com/uploads/posts/2011-02/1298490181_2.jpg

that is pretty awful but excited for that album

the ball's shadow is in the wrong direction

new Umberto 7"

http://www.notnotfun.com/pics/NNF227A.jpg
http://www.notnotfun.com/pics/NNF227B.jpg

I like that Hatchback cover a lot actually

http://www.vasiliska.com/uploads/posts/2011-03/1300129051_vessels-helioscope-400x400.jpg

(I think) I like this a lot (???)

srlsly there's something wrong with it tho, can't really give specifics.

perspective on the farmland tilts forward somehow..bothers me kindof, but it's pretty cool otherwise

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/bonnie_1.jpg

ummm....no

the exciting new album from HORSE CROTCH

what ! that's an awesome bit of crotch and photo, gravel and sky

meh

you "must be blind" to design an album cover like that

gotta love a dusty horse crotch

just seems like a dickish tryhard retro stunt by a designer trying to "bring back the crotch" idk

its just wrong

http://www.net-a-porter.com/am/product/103205?cm_mmc=ProductSearch-_-US-_-Beachwear-_-The

lol

also facepalm

"HOW MUCH!!!!"