Noteworthy album covers of 2011

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.

OMG I love how awful that Trail of Dead cover is. I didn't think it was possible to sink below the cover with the dead-eyed CGI chick (So Divided), but they did. Well done. I actually still fuck with this band though, they have their moments.

just got this, horrible cover, somewhat decent album.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IO5NzUs%2BL._SS500_.jpg

wow that trail of dead cover is unbelievable

i am transfixed i cannot look away

It's like they're trying to market it specifically to blind people.

The last Trail of Dead cover wasn't too offensive but WTF is this a Chronicles of Narnia concept album?

i think i will be giving them another try in 2011 just in case that heralds their bounce back to top form with a steampunk fantasy concept album

best part is the Star Fox lookin' guy on the left hand side

i'm trying to construct the novel in my head out of that image now

http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/spiderwick_chronicles_ver2.jpg

The game based on the album:

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/6/942726_94802_front.jpg

I know I'm in an ever dwindling minority, but as I said earlier I still mess with AYWKUBTTOD, partially because how ridiculously OTT they are - in artwork, arrangements, even live. I saw them play like a 12:30 PM set at Lollapalooza the first year of its Chicago residency, and they played like they were in a dank club at two in the morning. Tore the shit out of their instruments (literally, towards the end of the set), spent half the time in the crowd (no small feat with the way the stage was set-up), and seemed to not give a fuck that they had a small crowd and a shitty time slot.

http://exclaim.ca/images/phil1.jpg

http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/images/B004H1AXR8/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8&n=301062&s=music
Deaf Center- Owl Splinters

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_legu7rv6OY1qzphzwo1_400.jpg

Lush came back? (ie: what's that?)

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/375631-deaf-center-owl-splinters-limited-vinyl-edition

I like that Big Eagle thing. I don't like the band name or album title or the font though.

It looks like the best Muslimgauze album cover.

I think that "Tao of the Dead" album looks pretty awesome, like a poster for a steampunk cartoon or comic book. (Possibly the reason I like it is that I've nothing against steampunk fiction, and I don't quite get why many ILXors seem to hate it.) Much better than the sort of album covers with a mundane, faded 1970s polaroid and an IKEA-friendly font, which seem to get a lot of praise in these threads.

http://70.32.78.35/sonicnews/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/syr9-web1-300x300.jpg

Uh...

http://cdon.eu/media-dynamic/images/product/music/album/image0/horses_and_high_heels-13014619-frntl.jpg

Amazing!

Not exactly a new direction for them, but the Demdike Stare "Tryptych" cover is rad:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZOvWNsSsL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Is the SY cover just a screengrab from 'Jossy's Giants'?

Just saw this Demdike Stare video, which totally puts their cover art aesthetic in motion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0EbN3aICI

Never sure how much depth there is to Demdike's pretentious/portentous schtick but the execution is A++.

^ yeah!