Noteworthy album covers of 2013

Yeah the Matchless one is very good. Must be loads of record covers with that New Atlantis/Captain Nemo/Jar Jar Binks concept on them (e.g. Eternal Tapestry album from last year, though that was clearly in space), but that one is done in a really neat way, kind of a hodge-podge of styles: 50's architectural magazine feature in the foreground, stuff in the background is almost a chintzy Christmas card alpine village, but the perspective and layout is totally Japanese landscape painting, and then that roof is very Eurostar terminal at St Pancras. What does it sound like?

Miles one is *very* similar to the last Junior Boys album whatever the heck that was called, I still like it though. Good record too, more of a focussed and dance-oriented thing than the Demdike stuff, still plenty of weirdness though (it's Miles Whittaker for anyone that was wondering).

This was the Junior Boys cover I meant:

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

which is this thing of course

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/15/article-0-08B8A60F000005DC-897_634x452.jpg

Yeah the Matchless one is very good. Must be loads of record covers with that New Atlantis/Captain Nemo/Jar Jar Binks concept on them (e.g. Eternal Tapestry album from last year, though that was clearly in space), but that one is done in a really neat way, kind of a hodge-podge of styles: 50's architectural magazine feature in the foreground, stuff in the background is almost a chintzy Christmas card alpine village, but the perspective and layout is totally Japanese landscape painting, and then that roof is very Eurostar terminal at St Pancras. What does it sound like?

Matchess one is just actual 1970s NASA concept art.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/01/nasas-groovy-concept-art-orbiting-cities-future/1085/

I mean, that doesn't make me like it less. Just wanted to point out where they got it.

Oh wow, would you look at those things! thanks for the link!

Number None, remind where that building is again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_pavilion_at_Expo_2010

ahhh, thanks!

Aww, darn.

Satanic Rockers - 'Fu Kung', nsfw unless your job is determining the greatest album art of all time

haven't heard it but there's no way their music does that cover justice....

that german soldier has a very long neck

Yeah the Matchless one is very good. Must be loads of record covers with that New Atlantis/Captain Nemo/Jar Jar Binks concept on them (e.g. Eternal Tapestry album from last year, though that was clearly in space), but that one is done in a really neat way, kind of a hodge-podge of styles: 50's architectural magazine feature in the foreground, stuff in the background is almost a chintzy Christmas card alpine village, but the perspective and layout is totally Japanese landscape painting, and then that roof is very Eurostar terminal at St Pancras. What does it sound like?

dubby lo-fi indie electronics in the vein of peaking lights, dean blunt + inga copeland or laurel halo maybe. it's a fine little record, nothing spectacular but well worth a try.

http://wm.mynv.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/001l82.jpg

Kyary!

https://i3.sndcdn.com/artworks-000048748746-6u3k7p-t500x500.jpg?0c5f27c

so many of these i wanna check out just on the basis of cover

Bit of a Yes rip-off there

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b9QIHeVQL._SX355_.jpg

i hate this cover, but the new song is very cool, and a nwe direction from previous Arp stuff

― mizzell, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 5:08 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so cool!

Mercan Dede one is an insult to Yes, to Photoshop, and to architecture.

Agree. That cover makes me angry.

"From the makers of Myst..."

haha totally

http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/102572596/BIGLOVE047_SS.png

I really like the Mario Paint thing going on here.

SAPP HIRE SLOWS

well, it is the bands last ever album ...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/7313_583561711665107_488128812_n.jpg

haha I knew what that was going to be before I clicked on it

*barf*

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a66d6cee84519b900489dd593a91cca1/tumblr_moll2d3wyu1qaqkvpo1_1280.jpg

if that were a little lower quality it would look like a self-produced debut folk record

yay for black labs.

boo for there being another john mayer record (didn't he JUST put one out?)

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2013-06/1371531685_98687.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7lLU1bOaSUY/Ub9uRYcLTfI/AAAAAAAAADA/JzYtIpVduCk/s1600/Lemuria-The-Distance-Is-So-Big.jpg

ugh.

idg half of what's in this thread.

http://images.plixid.com/imager/w_500/h_/c85e02d7a7f4d5de2ded0a24ddae09dc.jpg
Juveniles - Juveniles

i kind of like the lemura one. it seems almost willful in the way it achieves ugliness with simple forms and colors, merely by eschewing compositional logic.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71ETZ7NxC3L._SS420_.jpg
ASG - Blood Drive.

Quite like this.

reminds me of a baroness cover

It makes me verklimt.

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3914734300_10.jpg

don't like the fake "distressed"/record-worn look (assuming that's what it is). Otherwise cool.

Yeah, fake distress is very three years ago, but I'm willing to forgive them.

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/sprinkles-remix-pack.jpg
the DJ Sprinkles remix comp

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/opnwarpalbum-6.19.2013.jpg

^ new Oneohtrix Point Never album, don't really know what to make of it

that's really nice imo

anyone know anything about the Juveniles?

Retro (80s-ish) synthy band. I like 'em.

juveniles feels derivative of the division bell half-icons

at very first glance the opn made me think of the rabbits set in inland empire, similar dimensions, a figure "entering" from left