Noteworthy album covers of 2013

too schoon, guys.

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/deafheaven.jpg

i like that one. reminds me of the palette tool on MS paint and other programs. that was always sort of magical to me as a kid, as there was an infinity of subtleties between two visibly identical shades. good evocation, Sunbathers.

OTOH, not a welcome gradient on the skin of a sunbather.

yes, it looks like a massive sun-poisoning blister.

love the kyle hall cover

re Sunbather I like to think of it as the color of sunlight through closed eyelids

That's nice, anonanon. Your association with eyelids staring at the sun has made me like this cover.

sweet. the dissolving text is a nice touch and apropos too. and all this for a black metal album

ok, an apparently shoegazey post-rockin black metal album, but still

been a while...

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2013/04/The-So-So-Glos-Blowout-608x608.jpg

Wait what? That's a black metal album? That one is misleading for sure.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/601280_10151385359676234_1731076794_n.jpg

http://www.sheandhim.com/images/she&him.jpg

Moka yeah Deafheaven is nominally black metal but based on a preview track, I wager the cover is quite appropriate. in case it piques your interest

what is so so glos?

fun party dude punk rock

I like their cover

Cover connections if you squint:

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (RIYL Young Galaxy, Chromatics kinda thing)
http://assets3.subpop.com/assets/images/main/12922.jpg

Sungod - Contackt (RIYL space rock kinda thing)
http://assets.boomkat.com/images/694530/333.jpg

http://www.theaquarian.com/wp-content/uploads//2013/05/05-08-Discs-Small-Black-Limits-of-Desire.jpg

lol wut

those two are great. especially the still corners one. don't think i'd name an album strange pleasures though, unless it is an explicit joy division nod

the small black is like extremely low rent storm thorgerson

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2013/05/Classixx-Hanging-Gardens-608x608.jpg
Classixx - Hanging Gardens

wait, what the...

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000000IY.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V1057207189_.gif

I remembered the TD cover being similar, but yeah...what the...

whoa. wait a second guys...

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/D/DR/DRI/Trashzone/dri-trashzone-20.jpg

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0192/5946/products/tce_steal_the_light_cover_grande.jpeg?1037

omg.

one of the guys in this band is named felix. classic cat jazz band move.

At last, the Graeme Base revival.

animalia!

It's a new band featuring Lol Creme, Lol Coxhill and Lol Tolhurst

kyle hall thing makes me think of that scene in dekalog

was gonna say that looks classic graeme base

NSFW: https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/942468_10200207896575919_1929912803_n.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nRkQM2uJl74/UXkf6T-RAOI/AAAAAAAADiE/xZ4tSZRLX5k/s1600/Sleeve+Tangering+Dream+Brian+May+Starmus+.jpg

that is an album cover?

http://www.amazon.com/Starmus-Sonic-Universe-Tangerine-Dream/dp/B00CCEHU1Y

It is, and it is just the album cover you'd expect from a former hero like Schulze and Brian fucking May.

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It is, and it is just the album cover you'd expect from a former hero like Schulze and Brian fucking May

Froese-ian slip?

:-)

I retract having called him a 'former hero' though. Schulze is an all time hero, despite him not having made a decent record since 1986 (TD's Underwater Sunlight).

Detour here, but it were my twin uncles that got me into TD and Schulze, that whole German (krautrock) scene tbh. They were 20 years old when they hitchhiked to Germany for a summer holiday, in 1979, the year I was born. Both of them with long hair and always wearing white overalls, just like Schulze on stage. They dared to try and meet Schulze at his home/studio. Just rang the doorbell, anxious and embarrassed. Klaus was beyond kind and generous: they ended up spending hours at his place. Schulze showed them his home studio, served them coffee and cake, and played them some tunes that right then were still unreleased (they turned out to be tracks from the upcoming Tangram album). Fantastic story for me.

http://www.terrorizer.com/terrorizerwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Baroness-Live-At-Maida-Vale.jpg

really like this, much more so than your garden variety John Baizley artwork at this point really

http://testpressing.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BIS006_COVER_500x500.jpg

^ i don't know what you would call that style, but i can't stop oogling this cover

some sort of techy colouring-book mysticism

I like that Secret Circuit cover (kinda reminds me of 60's/70's Jack Kirby comics), but that font lets it down.

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/zola_jesus_versions-500x500.jpg

really dig this, don't really care if very little effort went into it

Little effort, you say? They made the text all diagonal!

lol

tbh that probably looks good when lp-sized.

I like that Secret Circuit cover (kinda reminds me of 60's/70's Jack Kirby comics), but that font lets it down.

Does the mismatched alignment between top and bottom really bother anybody else? I mean, I know "galactics" is slightly longer than "tactile" but that still looks sloppy. Love the colors, though; it reminds me a bit of Stanislaw Lem book covers:

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c2436.jpg
http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347619972l/953489.jpg
http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/The-Futurological-Congress-by-Stanislaw-Lem.jpg