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

Any experts able to identify the font on the Islands cover 20 posts back?

xp ShariVari you from Poland?

No, i'm from London but i try to keep an eye on what's happening with Polish music and visit at least once a year.

Any experts able to identify the font on the Islands cover 20 posts back?

Looks like a variant of Gotham, which is pretty ubiquitous on movie posters these days. But the weight seems off a bit, I dunno.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost re: Soulja Boy

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flammarion.jpg/288px-Flammarion.jpg

Wikipedia: Flammarion engraving

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41m-jSz2m6L._SS500_.jpg

leviathan - true traitor true whore

freaking me the fuck out
http://pictures.cdconnection.com/covers/1577510.jpg

bill what is that?

last two equal awesome. sometimes i wish i paid attention to metal.

the fake ringwear on the Steel Panther album cover is dope imo

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Giant-Claw-Tunnel-Mind-cover-500x500.jpg

Giant Claw- Tunnel Mind

leviathan cover is pretty cool but i can't help but think they were like "oh shit we forgot to make a cover ... i know, i'll just photocopy my hand"

oh dear

http://www.popjustice.com/images/stories/j/wantedbattlegroundartwork.jpg

those guys would get slaughtered on a battleground. no armour, no weapons, looking a bit hungover and like they may have crossed swords the previous night and don't wanna talk about it.

http://vinylrecordings.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/graveyard-hisingen-blues-cover-front.jpg

I like that. Even decided to give it a listen on Spotify and I like that too.

I've tried going into the image with the cathedral but the website's telling me it's a Susan Boyle album. What cover art is freaking Bill out?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41m-jSz2m6L._SS500_.jpg

cover connection with:

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/albums/16941/cover-homepage_large.jpg

Graveyard totally rocking the Alan Aldridge / Kit Williams / fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me vision

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drl800/l854/l85457ux30i.jpg

(cover connection)

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/Carrion_Crawler_X_The_Dream.jpg
Thee Oh Sees- Carrion Crawler / The Dream

album i should get around to

Just a single, but yeah...this is great.

http://i.imgur.com/U1rLW.jpg

Wow that is cool

yeah

It would look great mural-size on a huge warehouse wall somewhere

Or in my house

http://www.showtimehiphop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Nacho-Picasso-For-The-Glory2011.jpg

What's up with the gargoyle clutching his nads?

that's just one of many questions raised by that cover.

Good lord

damn, it's like Frank Frazetta drew an R Crumb

WTF

A MASTERPIECE

lol

I see they had silicone implants already in the Middle Ages.

Steve Hauschildt's new album

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-3220498-1321045198.jpeg

doooooooooope

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~ruins/img/flyer/release/d_mgc39cover.jpg

Is that the Japanese version? The Skin Graft is slightly different.

yeah, that's the jap/european version. the one on skin graft is a little less goofier tho

http://www.skingraftrecords.com/graphics/biglppics/GR100big.jpg

Imbogodom - "And They Turned Not When They Went"

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu358/The405_photo/Newness/AndTheyTurnedNotWhenTheyWent-1.jpg

that is horrible

http://www.musicshop.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/265x265/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/M/M/MMCD036.jpg

I get that his brand of techno can be described as muscular but this is too much.

haha what does that cover have to do with 'muscular'

It looks to me like he's trying to show off as he looks into the light, "look at my bicep".

uh, if you say so.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/mannequinmendisc.jpg

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