Noteworthy album covers of 2011

new woods -- i dig

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/woods_1.jpg

based god always has great art

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/lilb_4.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-mm4yota2xk/TPTCy8ZWxjI/AAAAAAAAALQ/_7zSFBUauBU/s1600/156705_179255542091635_122869907730199_688984_1167519_n.jpg

those lil b covers are HORRIBLE, wtf

woods is O_O stunning awesome holy hell need to hear asap

disagree, they're amazing. Hip hop Jesus thing is overdone, nevertheless that cover is still great. Lil B as Elizabeth I... words fail me, but awesome.

>> Pien Feith's new album, "Dance In Me".... Oh, (looks more closely), it's "Dance On Me".
>> Damn. I liked it better the first way....

> The Pien Feith album is actually Dance on Time, but whatevs.

Now I like it even less....

You know all those "misheard lyrics" threads? Maybe we should have a Misread Album Titles thread....

re junior boys - thomas hetherwick's uk pavilion at the shanghai expo

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2010/03/dzn_SHANGHAI-EXPO-BY-THOMAS-HEATHERWICK-2.jpg

^that would be a much better cover

i agree. apart from the debut the junior boys are not good at covers.

junior boys do not make the kind of music that begs to have a construction worker on the cover

http://www.thevaccines.co.uk/media/gallery_images/lightbox/4.jpg

I love when Columbia releases bring back the little label insignia thing on the front cover art retro-style. Also, good composition on this one in general.

I like that cover. So are The Vaccines actually any good or just another shit NME hype band?

I think they're great, except for their "hey lookit us!" single, "Post Break-Up Sex" (which is deplorable. The rest of the album is super.

http://i.imgur.com/rV3T5.jpg

love this one
http://exclaim.ca/images/seefeel.jpg

http://metalwarez.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Turisas-Stand-Up-and-Fight-Single-2011.jpg

ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner

nice.
also: haven't seen you in a minute, Alex!

left-handed vikings ftw

Oh Finland

http://andandawii.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/turisas.jpg http://yle.fi/ecepic/archive/00181/turisas_ToniSalmine_181339b.jpg

Official promo pics of Turisas you seen in local music mags are often pretty funny too... Still, gotta give props for them for presenting the sole woman as a fierce Viking warrior too, and not as a leather babe, which seems to be more common with metal bands with one female member.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li1t93cpY71qdzlqpo1_500.jpg

xp name one metal band that do that please.

Sorry, I'm not interested enough in metal to remember the names, but I've seen the pics.

yawn

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

shootin for twitter buzz there

what, you expected a death cab album cover to be interesting?

Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer have both been quoted as saying that the album will be "a much less guitar-centric album than we’ve ever made before," and likened the record to Another Green World by Brian Eno.

I actually like a couple DCFC albums, but, c'mon, lol.

we have the facts and we're voting shut the fuck up

new Rene Hell

http://static.boomkat.com/images/421587/333.jpg

I enjoy that one except I don't understand the parking lot at the bottom of the photo

She's a giant and she's about to slice up some Hondas.

Come on down to Folsom Lake Honda where the 50 ft woman is SLASHING prices!

http://magiska.vlsweb.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DLYI.jpg

album is called "dress like your idols"

Are those supposed to be album cover pastiches? I know the

I know the middle one is Velvet Underground, but I don't recognize the others.

Does the one in the middle of the botton row refer to "Hand on the Torch" by US3?

middle bottom row is Eliot Smith; top left is Built to Spill, bottom right maybe Pearl Jam? I feel like Arcade Fire does the swirly stuff on the top right album but don't really know their work.

built to spill, ramones, ?
jon spencer blues explosion, vu, the sonics
pearl jam, elliot smith, pavement

i can't tell whether the cover is cute or embarrassing tbh

Well Pearl Jam are in there

Horrific.

album cover = effective warning shot to stay the fuck away

top right is Long Winters

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/Whenipretendtofall.jpg

ALBUM JUDGED BY COVER, FILM AT 11

That Boat band had better be reallllly fucking good, with that album cover.

Love the album cover. Lots of balls, cute as fuck. Band probably sucks, news at 11.

Don't know who she is or what she sounds like, but I like this

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TYEexOqinGI/AAAAAAAAAjU/UVoob_9OI6Q/s400/Snowglobe-Jesca%20Hoop.jpg

well duh :)

Dunno if it's just me, but the font/existence of text totally ruins it

p cool otherwise

This is definitely diy indie schmindie design, but I like it more than most

http://mergerecords.com/cache/6/66/66a/66a9/phpThumb_cache_mergerecords.com_src66a9cc10f6c72bf08e026278a819277c_par2be6790ed83566b5a06a17bb9bce2616_dat1298386262.jpeg