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)
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
does even the streets care about the streets anymore?
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I must confess the PJ Harvey first brought to mind:http://i40.tinypic.com/315l7ar.jpg
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/KRSCover-450x450.jpg
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
show having second thoughts abt the whole enterprise
― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
egad
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― shart to the *plop* (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TSNR1k9t-KI/AAAAAAAAAP8/RzmCGm4llQ0/pienfeith-danceontime.jpg
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
itt: ppl defacing their own chillwave/deburghwave covers with mspaint scribbles
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
w dance on
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
that toro cover freaks me out. ew.
― but it could have happened when i was playing tesla (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TSn8z8XSCOI/AAAAAAAAARU/pUnHqSlviS4/s512/LLAlbumCover.jpg
This might be slightly overdistressed, but I still dig the feel of it.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 9 January 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that Streets cover a photo of the Zigguart halls of residence at the UEA?
― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 9 January 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Hate the Toro y Moi.
Like this one:
http://www.ssgmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Cut-Copy-album-cover.jpg
― monster_xero, Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/heckerlp452.jpg
― Indexed, Monday, 10 January 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
or:
― Indexed, Monday, 10 January 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit @ that cut copy one, that's pretty great
― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Monday, 10 January 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
cut copy cover is straight rip of climax blues band cover
― blank, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thegreat80s.com/images/albums/climaxbluesband-FlyingTheFlag.jpg
― blank, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
It's actually a Tsunehisa Kimura photomontage that they just adapted, so whatevs.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 10 January 2011 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Monday, 10 January 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol just saying "not noteworthy" because I see the CBB LP everywhere.. Just kind of an obvious rip I dunno lol
― blank, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, it appears the cover of the Streets album was taken at my alma mater.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Monday, 10 January 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
that's uea, no? it's kinda as unspectacular a photo as you could take of the pyramids, if so.
― schlump, Monday, 10 January 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's UEA. I actually quite like the cover, divorced of context.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://sunonthesand.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Wire-Red-Barked-Tree.jpg
Wire: Red Barked Tree
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a nice cover but a terrible title.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
they spelled "Wine" wrong
― I Lost A COGHdrop in His Pato (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Posted mainly bcs of thing that struck me on playing the album for 1st time on way to work this morning: cover works well enough seen on small handheld phone-type device.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i love this one
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/pandabear.jpg
― ilxor, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Who is that?
― van smack, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Panda Bear.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
This one's kind of silly, but I like it anyway.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TTCsqOSPDsI/AAAAAAAAASE/9_YZ1-as_FQ/thosedancingdays.jpg
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
that's not the panda bear cover by the way
― mizzell, Saturday, 15 January 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't think it was. It's just a cropped photo.
I think the real Panda Bear cover is a charcoal drawing or something iirc.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 15 January 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
the above > every potential album ocver panda has yet to consider
― heh (kelpolaris), Saturday, 15 January 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sUtyx4_Y8PM/TSTV12MjEXI/AAAAAAAADk0/SkPkCGurds8/s1600/the%2Bjoy%2Bformidable.jpg
The Joy Formidable
― you got your TV, you got your dinner, you got your TV dinner (DavidM), Saturday, 15 January 2011 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I love the hell out of that band, but their cover art continues to be ass.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 15 January 2011 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2010/11/04/design-as-virus-13-tsunehisa-kimura/
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Saturday, 15 January 2011 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
xp I think the band are pretty lame but that cover is sweet
will we ever see eye to eye Johnny Fever
― cup of tea & an orange.xls (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 15 January 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/2pzmfyq.jpg
I kinda like the image but the font sucks right there.
― Gay for Johnny Moped (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 January 2011 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
No, that's just about right
― Rand Paula Abdul Jabbar (van smack), Sunday, 16 January 2011 07:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.boiseweekly.com/images/blogimages/2011/01/05/1294271097-iron-and-wine-kiss-each-other-clean-cover-art.jpg
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 16 January 2011 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link
(Iron and Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean)
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 16 January 2011 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i like both of those covers. wouldn't want to hear the iron & wine music and have that ruin my enjoyment of the cover, though. the seefeel cover makes me think the album's going to be ~~~fucking HEAVY~~~ (looks like a metal cover!), would love for that to be true...
― ilxor, Sunday, 16 January 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/zvy0i0.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 17 January 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like a graphic from late bbc2 favourite 'business lunch'
which i guess kinda works if they think they can still make bitter snipes at commodity fetishism after work as industry execs etc for 30 years
― krugmayne (nakhchivan), Monday, 17 January 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
[working]
― krugmayne (nakhchivan), Monday, 17 January 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
business lunch ended? :(
― "jobs" (a hoy hoy), Monday, 17 January 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I see they had silicone implants already in the Middle Ages.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
Steve Hauschildt's new album
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-3220498-1321045198.jpeg
― van smack, Sunday, 13 November 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
doooooooooope
― fauxmarc loi (The Reverend), Monday, 14 November 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~ruins/img/flyer/release/d_mgc39cover.jpg
― cock chirea, Monday, 14 November 2011 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
Is that the Japanese version? The Skin Graft is slightly different.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 14 November 2011 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
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
― cock chirea, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
Imbogodom - "And They Turned Not When They Went"
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu358/The405_photo/Newness/AndTheyTurnedNotWhenTheyWent-1.jpg
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
that is horrible
― GOIT BUZZ TOYS (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 17 November 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― "only girl in the kitchen" (boxedjoy), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
haha what does that cover have to do with 'muscular'
― rockapads, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
It looks to me like he's trying to show off as he looks into the light, "look at my bicep".
― "only girl in the kitchen" (boxedjoy), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
uh, if you say so.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/mannequinmendisc.jpg
― mizzell, Friday, 18 November 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
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Noteworthy album covers of 2012
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― ilxor, Monday, 2 January 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
rip 2k11 rip isolée
― The Triumph of the Will High (nakhchivan), Monday, 2 January 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link