Here we go.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3216022738_10.jpgTiny Moving Parts - Swell
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
ouch
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
http://bighassle.com/wp-content/files_mf/1514499066ModernLoreCover_Bleed.jpg.jpeg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 February 2018 06:07 (six years ago) link
Hanna Benn's 'Divide' EP
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2018/01/2018-EP-cover-1516141451-640x640.png
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/356/MI0004356295.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
https://i2.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/24301463_10155731319791469_6574814537948168594_n.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 11 February 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
http://www.xxlmag.com/files/2018/02/Shirt-Pure-Beauty.jpg
SHIRT - Pure Beauty
(lol)
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 12 February 2018 08:42 (six years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2361037514_16.jpg
― alpine static, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
So... "bad" is the aesthetic this year.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
noteworthy ≠ good
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:15 (six years ago) link
Andrew W.K. - You Are Not Alone
https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/andrew-wk-youre-not-alone-album-artwork-701x701.jpg
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
I like the No Age cover.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWCKWihVMAA9U7V.jpg
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 15 February 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
sry
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 15 February 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
Thought the name of that band was 'A CEO of Tomorrow' which seemed quite dark.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 15 February 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
Man that is giving me
https://i.imgur.com/iGSNLvs.jpg
vibes
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 15 February 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
well if we're going down that road...
https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Victorius-Dinosaur-Warfare-01-500x500.jpg
― Dinsdale, Friday, 16 February 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
ADT - Insecurities:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1320331733_10.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 09:44 (six years ago) link
Datarock - Face the Brutality
https://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic10/6808C4455F7-0B48-C3DD-85076B8C3C2FD0EA.jpg
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
That Tyga cover is pretty noteworthy. Was a little surprised to see posters of it hanging on a city street.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Friday, 23 March 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link
http://matablog.matadorrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ole-1328_SM_Sparkle_Hard.jpg
(The "SMJ" + Matador catalog number added to boat's hull is nice touch...)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
would be better uncensored tbh!
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Ceephax - Camelot Arcade
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZYyE4FXUAAChGo.jpg
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZ3gkXJUMAA14j1.jpg:large
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
One day I'll figure out why twimg links never load for me. But I like that Manic Street Preachers cover.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 5 April 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
http://puregrainaudio.com/images/blogimages/29882.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
wait, sorry, that came out last year. disregard that album cover. i forget what year it is on the internet.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
That's timeless my man
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 6 April 2018 07:50 (six years ago) link
Don't know how noteworthy this one is, but it's kind of intriguing and made me want to hear the album:
http://northerntransmissions.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Hinds-Review-Owen-Maxwell-330x330.jpg
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Friday, 6 April 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
(It's good, btw)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Friday, 6 April 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Paco Sala - It's Been a Long Time Since I Cared & It Feels Goodhttps://i.imgur.com/vVeAi1v.jpg
Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptilehttps://static.spin.com/files/2018/03/sonscover-1522436988-compressed.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 13 April 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
OK so possibly the most !! thing about this is that the record inside this sleeve exists, however I am digging the 70s budget album vibe of the cover.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1213/3060/products/Cover_Art_-_Shopify_and_Constant_Contact.jpg?v=1512242684
― Jeff W, Friday, 13 April 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
By contrast, this one just screams "I licensed my back catalogue to a budget label that sells its wares only in motorway service stations". Poor show, Kylie.
http://directlyrics.com/img/upload/kylie-minogue-golden.jpg
― Jeff W, Friday, 13 April 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
Cover connections: feels like the dude that did that ADT album has been gifted some Michael DeForge back issues since he last updated his own website
http://koyamapress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Cover152.jpghttp://koyamapress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Cover162.jpg
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 13 April 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
(previously: https://www.edriv.net/#/353628916383/ )
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 13 April 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
Worst album cover I’ve seen this year is the 30 seconds to mars one
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 13 April 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1391/7125/products/PANORAMIC_1_2048x2048.jpg?v=1523354492
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 13 April 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
http://www.xxlmag.com/files/2018/02/Peewee-Longway-Spaghetti-Factory.jpg?w=1080&h=1080&q=75
Peewee Longway, Spaghetti Factory
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Friday, 27 April 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
http://regenmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Shriekback_WhyAnythingWhyThis.jpg
Shriekback, 'Why Anything? Why This?'
maybe the artwork/title are meta-commentary idk
― Pardew to Megson: "you've stolen my New Orleans bounce" (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
That's definite "is this intentional?" territory
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 4 May 2018 06:47 (five years ago) link
https://d1wtzzt4oxg683.cloudfront.net/images/covers/large/52/170302.jpg
― Jeff W, Sunday, 6 May 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
This I like:Stimulator Jones - Exotic Worlds and Masterful Treasureshttps://d1wtzzt4oxg683.cloudfront.net/images/covers/large/140/170390.jpg
Cover of new Arctic Monkeys is also great.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 6 May 2018 12:12 (five years ago) link
holy shit! i didn't realize stimulator jones actually took off. i heard he was talking to stones throw awhile back but could never confirm. that album cover looks like it was done by daniel cundiff who does the eternal summers and young sinclairs album art
― dynamicinterface, Sunday, 6 May 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
Stimulator Jones album is as dope as its cover btw
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 May 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
Christ! That Shriekback cover is terrible.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 May 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
I have pretty low expectations for the music too tbh
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 7 May 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
http://www.xxlmag.com/files/2018/05/Lil-Baby-Harder-Than-Ever-Mixtape.jpg
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 11:56 (five years ago) link
https://exclaim.ca//images/NekoHellOn.jpg
Neko Case - Hell On
wtf is going on here? they are going for epic but getting goofy in return.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
https://exclaim.ca//images/ohsees_4.jpg
Oh Sees Smote Reverser
― Simon H., Tuesday, 5 June 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfHmTTYVMAAXKCo?format=jpg&name=large
Nicki Minaj – Queen
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 8 June 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91amIzeruGL._SL1200_.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 31 August 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Please tell me Muse have gone vaporwave
― Jeff W, Saturday, 1 September 2018 12:22 (five years ago) link
Ready Player Muse
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 September 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1372747449_10.jpg
(I swear this album cover was on this thread, unless we've got multiple noteworthy album cover threads running. Chris Crofton, 'Hello it's me')
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 17 September 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2018/08/Liars_TWTWF_CoverArt_hires-1535545390-640x640.jpgLiars - Titles With the Word Fountain
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 21 September 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3829842247_16.jpg
Lonnie Holley - MITH
― alpine static, Friday, 21 September 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
one i like : https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2717866482_10.jpgone i hate : https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0564989486_10.jpg
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Chris Crofton is almost a contemporary take on both those Julie's 16 Birthday old hat lol covers and Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
Yes to the latter!
It's a surprisingly ok album. Crofton's not as good as he aspires to be, but his flawed, one dimensional Randy Newman schtick and Wayne Coyne falsetto actually work!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
those Julie's 16 Birthday old hat lol covers <-- what are examples of this?
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
look forward to that kikagaku moyo!
― niels, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 06:46 (five years ago) link
holy cow that kikagaku moyo cover is amazing
― nxd, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 08:55 (five years ago) link
Sly & Robbie meet Nils petter Molvaer feat Eivind Aarset and Vladislav Delay - Nordub
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61cSvAXHuTL._PJautoripBadge,BottomRight,4,-40_OU11__.jpg
I have fallen in love with that cover.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 27 September 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link
Great album, too
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 28 September 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
http://www.fabriclondon.com/store/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/900x/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/f/l/fl100-packshot-final_1.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 28 September 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/factmag-images/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/exploded-view-of-time-cover.jpg
― willem, Friday, 28 September 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1852033240_10.jpg
Restorations - LP5000
― Dinsdale, Friday, 28 September 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ex1alDk.jpg
― niels, Saturday, 29 September 2018 07:54 (five years ago) link
http://www.borguez.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/The-Dwarfs-of-East-Agouza-Rats-Dont-Eat-Synthesizers-300x300.jpgThe Dwarfs of East Agouza - Rats Don’t Eat Synthesizers
― willem, Saturday, 29 September 2018 08:02 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0642158095_16.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 29 September 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
https://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2018/septic06-shackleton.jpgShackleton's Furnace of Guts EP
― davey, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 01:27 (five years ago) link
this one:https://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2018/septic06-shackleton.jpg
― davey, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
https://284fc2d5f6f33a52cd9f-ce476c3c56a27f320262daffab84f1af.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/artwork_5bb330acddc74_400x400bb.jpg
― Herb Achelors (NickB), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
indeed, this is not the thread for great album covers
― niels, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
quavo - quavo huncho
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DotbeemU4AA10Sp.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 5 October 2018 09:49 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4082269697_10.jpg
steve hauschildt, dissolvi
― marcos, Friday, 5 October 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
quavo cover is so weird, really cool, bot what you'd expect
― niels, Friday, 5 October 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
not*
This new cover art is pretty sick:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpRBYhJV4AAgHeL?format=jpg&name=large
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Friday, 12 October 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
people are always going back to American Gothic
― DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 October 2018 08:02 (five years ago) link
https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/ma/83/diwp2rxgd83ma_600.jpg
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
What was the one with the dog sat at a piano and a picture of a mushroom cloud behind it that kept showing up on Bandcamp 'featured' a few weeks ago. That one.
― Walter Wegmüller Fruit Corner (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
https://subpop-img.s3.amazonaws.com/asset/productable_images/attachments/000/007/647/max_960/jmascis-elasticdays-cover-3600x3600.jpg?1533251687
― na (NA), Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41pNYqb1FlL._SS500.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41J%2BHBzTR3L._SS500.jpg
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
any info on who shot those?
― niels, Sunday, 4 November 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
The Amerie covers? They’re credited to “Mr Nicholson/Feenix Rising Ent.” (here’s another from the same session: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8480485/amerie-surprise-double-album-exclusive-interview). That’s the name of her label/management (her husband is Lenny Nicholson, a former record exec)... so, in short, no info on the actual photographer.
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Sunday, 4 November 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
(I would also like to add, as I’ve mentioned in Rolling R&B, that these two EPs are terrifically great!!)
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Sunday, 4 November 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
cool, thanks
will check them out!
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 08:38 (five years ago) link
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2018/11/cupcakke-1541711284-640x640.jpg
― niels, Sunday, 11 November 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link
Who is that?
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Sunday, 11 November 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
cupcakKe
― niels, Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
the livity sound label's art direction has been outstanding esp. this year
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2607596384_16.jpg
― davey, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
<3 this thread
― davey, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 02:18 (five years ago) link
http://www.beatburguer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/67477450-0eea-4d0b-a905-5c8b204926d5-768x764.jpg
― ogmor, Friday, 23 November 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsI61LnXoAQUV1o.jpg
― niels, Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Scm0quh.png
― niels, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3685422938_16.jpg
Ill Considered: An Ill Considered Christmas
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/images/covers/coffin-fuck-silent-night(single)-20181223100958.jpg
― pomenitul, Sunday, 23 December 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzHNy9wX0AAqiTQ.jpg:large
Lisa Frank returns.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 11 February 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
wow that's awesome
we do have a 2019 thread for this though, you should post it there
Noteworthy album covers of 2019
― frogbs, Monday, 11 February 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link