Noteworthy album covers of 2011

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!

I'm guessing the SY one is a shot from the movie for which the album serves as a soundtrack.

Why isn't that Marianne Faithfull album called Horses and High Heels and Seaside and Abundant Flowers?

Also, why does it say "Horses" when there clearly only one single horse? I mean, everything else is on the nose obvious, so that seems like a major fuck up.

You don't see the other horse drowning in the sea?

I think those are rocks. But I did just notice one in the vegetation.

Several horses in the vegetation (well, two, possibly more) and one in the sea foam.

Sneaky damn horses.

(Is the big cluster of pink/purple flowers on the right-hand side an upside horse?)

Is the album cover better or worse now that's been discovered to be a game of "find the horses"?

Cloud horse!

Ha, my previous post was meant to be joke, I hadn't noticed there actually are hidden horses in the pic.

Yeah, that kind of resembles yet ANOTHER horse.

Playing "find the horses" at least makes it remarkable, but I still don't know that it's very good.

I really like that cover picture. Reminds me of young adult fiction books for horse fan girls. And I love how there's a horse for each element in the pic: plant horse, water horse, air horse... Though it should have a sand horse too to make it complete. (Unless the real horse walking in the sand counts as "sand horse"?)

SOme of that artist's other work is pretty O_O, don't want to sully this thread with it though. Apparently he did some cover art for Prince too, but I can't quite figure out what.

http://www.jimwarren.com/site/album/Fine_Art/index.php