Noteworthy album covers of 2012

it must be some kind of oil with water on top to give that droplet effect, no? very weird

http://www.side-line.com/images/uploads/march12042012.jpg = http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzfjwpH3AI1qafdxeo1_500.gif

Slava cover connection with this one...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1c/DK_Plastic_Surgery_Disasters.jpg/220px-DK_Plastic_Surgery_Disasters.jpg

just caught up on this thread after 2-3 months, here's a few i didn't see yet

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dCD1pjndL._SS400_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bLD8bFWVL._SS500_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ems1Se8-L._SS500_.jpg

^^ second one is Mirrorring - Foreign Body

quite like the mirrorring one, though i don't love the music tbh

Like the Mirroring cover, too. Cover connection with the Flights of Fancy one!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61YJtfm6ywL._SS500_.jpg

Zammuto – Zammuto

dope

The Wake - A Light Far Out
http://music.is-amazing.com/sites/music.is-amazing.com/files/thelights.jpg

Great White Buffalo - Tightrope
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/31/11/3111689088-1.jpg

Tiger Waves - Don't Be YOurself
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/36/89/3689307729-1.jpg

thread is always full of bafflement. only "noteworthy" covers good or bad in the last few days are the slava and the zammuto, and the latter's no great shakes...

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/09/cyan.jpg

is this supposed to be BOB from twin peaks?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AWWygQ9o1A4/Tk5jwtaQAjI/AAAAAAAAADM/HUs4af2DUgA/s1600/1296187746_cover.jpg

http://www.experimedia.net/images/brr217lp.jpg

^ this was a december 2011 release, but I really love this photo

Following up on that James Ferraro cover with the iPads on it, this is horrific:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zEle%2Bs3FL._SS500_.jpg

Whistla - Enter the Swivel

^ this was a december 2011 release, but I really love this photo

Bummed that this did not load, but this was supposed to be Early Astral from Chris Forsythe and Koen Holtkamp:

http://blackestrainbowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/early-astral

xp that's some Lawnmower Man-level silliness

lol @ "Tiger Waves"

Whistla cover is some straight up have you shagged ariane yet?

Haha yes!

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s320x320/548395_272701499474774_130149957063263_571357_321094478_n.jpg

Birch Cooper - I Was A Teacher

oh god, it reminds me of
http://www.joltradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/pictureplane__thee_physical1.jpg

what do you call this "aesthetic" ?

fugly

Trollgaze

'Internet art'

Kai's Power Tools

speaking of net art, i present the new gatekeeper lp:

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

what do you call this "aesthetic" ?

― kelpolaris, Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

local band CD bin at a record store in the 90s?

overall this is a p bad year for album art!

But probably a good year for purposefully bad album art.

the aesthetic is called "sea punk"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/fashion/Seapunk-a-Web-Joke-With-Music-Has-Its-Moment.html

Basically another branding of nostalgia. It's funny cos i read mentions of Seapunk somewhere but only just now realized when i was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s i went through a phase with my brothers were our clothes were like really neon colors and tropical themed and completely stupid. I didn't get the reference cos I just never thought that style was worth digging up. How wrong i was.

Sounds more or less like the 2012 equiv to the 2008 hipster jackass that wears headbands everywhere.

i wouldn't call the pictureplane cover seapunk, to me it seems pretty standard '11 net art style whereas seapunk is mostly met with eye rolls even within the net art community

adam did u rock hypercolor?

No, i thought that was gross, cos it only changed colors after you sweated all over it.

http://www.bluecollardistro.com/neurotrecordings/images/nr-lp-079-ltd-full.gif

ok that's gorgeous

is that an LP?

Pictureplane is straight up Magic Eye. Skillful focusers will see a dinosaur and an American flag.

heh

http://www.stonesthrow.com/images/2012/vex-eulogy.jpg

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/images/uploads/quakers600.jpg

The Ufomammut looks like a CD to me, but I'd be very impressed if it was vinyl.

That's the limited edition vinyl.

Sweet!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W%2BfWe06rL._SS500_.jpg

AU - Both Lights

AU's been posted before. still like it. agate!

so who is the "vex" of the maxfield-parrish-eque cover just after the ufomammut