Noteworthy album covers of 2012

I didn't know it was limited until AFTER I'd posted/bought a copy. Only learned it when someone mentioned the pre-order was sold out.

Could that Batida band possibly sound as cool as that cover looks? I'm probably going to be disappointed, right? What's his / her / their deal?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, March 2, 2012 8:14 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

if you like energetic tropical dance music:

Soundway are set to release the debut album from Batida, the brainchild of Angolan / Portuguese DJ Mpula aka Pedro Coquenão. A distinctly modern and vibrant project with its feet firmly rooted in the past, Batida combine samples from old 1970s Angolan tracks with modern electronic dance music. Music is the starting point but through dance, graphics, photography, radio and video, Batida expands, taking in politics and social commentary but always bringing it back to the party.

Being the first of a string of brand new projects, this eponymous first album sees Soundway taking a slightly different direction in 2012 and beyond. Championed mostly for their work in un-earthing and re-releasing classic, rare and vintage tropical recordings, Soundway have started signing new acts that have drawn on and been inspired by the kind of music found on the label’s groundbreaking compilations and re-issues.

What originally started out as a radio show designed to promote new African music has slowly evolved into a collaborative project crossing continents.

Whereas nearly all of kuduro (Angolan electronic music) has no obvious references to its country’s musical heritage, it is deeply engrained in Batida’s music. Sampling tracks from 1970s Angola, Batida is a reinterpretation of Angola’s musical past, bringing it firmly into the modern day.

Batida’s high energy live show features dancers, live samples, percussionists, MCs alongside visuals and images (both archive and new) of Angolan streets, war and fragments of tribal life.

http://cdn.rap-up.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dawn-richard-armor-on.jpg

Dawn Richard - Armor On

I hate that ugly overused font, but cool photo/wardrobe idea.

So similar to the new School Of Seven Bells!

would look much better without the font. Looks like a watermarked image as is.

Also the font is ugly.

i have a weakness for tracklists on front covers

http://www.dafont.com/birth-of-a-hero.font

It's almost ubiquitous in low-budget cover art design at this point. Ick.

yeah, i'm not defending the font itself, just what it's used for.

Yeah, I do like large swaths of text in some situations, and if she'd chosen a different font I might have liked it here too.

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

haha!

The letter spacing on the word 'father' hurts my eyes. Funny cover tho.

Sinead O'Connor achieving the 3rd-tier Celtic-trad look here

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

cf. Green Linnet record covers: http://greenlinnet.com

err...

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

yeah, mojo had that in their reviews section as the cover, whereas, amazon has the art as this :

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

which is a little better ..

fuck. soz.

go look @ amazon, its different.

http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/node_article_image/files/sinead-oconnor-2012-album.jpg

Both are terrible but the first is at least interesting-terrible.

I caught her on some british TV show and the presenter (can't remember who it was) showed the cd and she was like 'THAT IS NOT THE COVER'

she was wearing lots of weird saggy pvc and had a horrible myspace tattoo as well

lol

that Fritz Kalkbrenner made my stomach drop when the effect started working

I've always liked the cover aesthetic for CDs released by Nonplace, and IMO the latest album by Burnt Friedman is their best yet:

http://www.irieites.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/burnt_friedman.jpg

http://static.boomkat.com/images/527237/333.jpg

http://www.technique.co.jp:88/photo/img/201202/NON33CD_2.JPG

http://nonplace.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/non33.jpg

Sorry about the multiple images, couldn't find any single pic where the cover was laid open.

what's that sound like? it's gorgeous.

favorite ones on this thread are monolake and wooden shjips. love the earth one, too. bought that lp tonight and the girl who checked me out was all proud on behalf of her friend, who happened to have done that particular cover!

into this:

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2012/03/Matthewdavid-Jewelry-608x608.jpg

matthewdavid - jewelry

That looks as though there are cutouts on the foreheads--is that so?

http://magiska.vlsweb.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/cover2-400x400.jpg

v #rare and #based album cover. not sure about #secrete tho.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/photosizer/upload/anathemaweathersystemscover.jpeg

http://www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/whirr-pipe-dreams-400x400.jpg

http://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8a522aed8c526a8208b32684/files/netherfriends_middle_america_web.jpg

yeah those three are terrible

That Middle America/Netherfriends thing is pretty cool, actually.

Hah I know that Netherfriends guy. He's on a mission to record a song in every state in the USA. Really nice dude.

i wonder if the Anathema one was done using an iphone app

http://tinyplanetphotos.tumblr.com/

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/frying-on-this-rock.jpg
White Hills- Frying on this Rock

beach house - bloom
http://i.imgur.com/hIh35.jpg

awful

trypophobia thread is thataway

gah, there hasn't been a "noteworthy" album cover posted since the break. burnt friedman art is kind of cool in a "looks like a detail from a mati klarwein painting" sense, but other than that...

fu if you don't think God's Father cover is notable

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2012-03/1331036180_cover.jpg

New Build - Yesterday was Lived and Lost

Posted here for its terribleness btw

New Album is Sad, a Lemon

Apologies if this has already been posted- I'm on a phone and can't see images- but holy crap, I love this:

http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/8317/laurel_halo_quarantine_1332348513_crop_550x550.jpg