Noteworthy album covers of 2011

This one's kind of silly, but I like it anyway.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TTCsqOSPDsI/AAAAAAAAASE/9_YZ1-as_FQ/thosedancingdays.jpg

that's not the panda bear cover by the way

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.

the above > every potential album ocver panda has yet to consider

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sUtyx4_Y8PM/TSTV12MjEXI/AAAAAAAADk0/SkPkCGurds8/s1600/the%2Bjoy%2Bformidable.jpg

The Joy Formidable

I love the hell out of that band, but their cover art continues to be ass.

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2010/11/04/design-as-virus-13-tsunehisa-kimura/

xp I think the band are pretty lame but that cover is sweet

will we ever see eye to eye Johnny Fever

http://i51.tinypic.com/2pzmfyq.jpg

I kinda like the image but the font sucks right there.

No, that's just about right

http://www.boiseweekly.com/images/blogimages/2011/01/05/1294271097-iron-and-wine-kiss-each-other-clean-cover-art.jpg

(Iron and Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean)

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...

http://i51.tinypic.com/zvy0i0.jpg

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

[working]

business lunch ended? :(

yeah, except it was called working lunch (oops)

ha oh yeah. poor unemployed frumpy fat dude, i liked you more than adrian chiles.

That GOF cover is horrid. Is the Iron & Wine one a crayon and scraped black paint job? If so, good effort.

Nice fake lens flare

if you like fake lens flare

gang of four cover (which is AWFUL) reminds me of this, which is not so bad

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/stereolab/album-aluminum-tunes-switched-on-vol-3.jpg

wtf is that toro y moi cover supposed to be??

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/fandgdebutalbumcoverart452.jpg

<3

Some hideousness:

http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-God-Particle-320x320.jpg
http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Other-Side-Of-320x320.jpg

Rather like this, though http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/folder3-320x320.jpg

http://www.csindy.com/images/blogimages/2010/12/14/1292366823-contentcan.jpeg

artwork for almost all the madlib medicine show stuff has been fantastic, imo

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/3bbcb3c6c475dd792aaa6e3cdcebf0e5.jpg

http://www.drawuslines.com/wp-content/themes/tma/images/bg/1900s_LP-e1288910175363.jpg

Would have been kinda neat if it wasn't for the fucking gradient.

The gradient and light source seem at odds.

diggin' this cover

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2010-11/1290577239_sofrito-tropical-discotheque.jpg

I like that too.

^ what is that ribbon lp?

Someone called the 1900's I think.

Yeah, I have no idea who they are, but it got reviewed in Pitchfork yesterday.

artwork for almost all the madlib medicine show stuff has been fantastic, imo

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/3bbcb3c6c475dd792aaa6e3cdcebf0e5.jpg

― ilxor, Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:58 AM (6 days ago)

funny, i posted this about a week ago-- now there's a pfork feature on same (prolly coincidence?)

worth a read btw

http://pitchfork.com/news/41186-take-cover-imadlib-medicine-showi

1900s are a psych-pop band from Chicago. that cover is terrible.

maybe more baroque-pop?

nah ilxor you are the tastemaker pitchfork follow. gonna do an awkward feature about hearing the jazz canon for the first time starting in november where jess harvell comes across a little 1950s equiv of lil-wayne-onion-cover-i-seemingly-can't-find-atm.jpg

awesome, can't wait

really tho, just sayin there are pfork writers who read ilm & the timing is such that someone could've seen the img post 6 days ago, gone "hey those are great covers" and contacted/interviewed the guy in recent days

just sayin

also pfork writers who listen to madlib

didn't know they existed-- i don't recall pfork reviewing any of the 10 medicine show releases last year

or oh i dunno, the badu record?

"hello i am d4vid dr4ke, professional rap critic with a particular love of musicians out of california and i was all 'madvillian, more like who?villain'"

really like the lettering on this

http://cdn.hmvdigital.ca/static/img/sleeveart/00/009/927/0000992797_500.jpg

http://www.punx.nl/images/cds/4658.jpg

lock thread

2k11 not exactly tearing it up on the covers front

Error Defence?

errrr
http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Tao-of-the-Dead-320x320.jpg

lol @ me ten years ago caring about that band.