Friendly Parrot
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like a perfume ad
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ that one is awful
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
:/
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/battles_1.jpg
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
lol.
― Nult AGL (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
ew
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
pokemon took a dump on our record sorry y'all
― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder if they spent a long time coming up with that.
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i could swallow a pack of bubble yum and "come up" with that in about five minutes
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
also this is totally dumb because i know it's 2011 and cds/records don't really matter anymore but it bugs me that the image doesn't appear to be square (ie it's taller than it is wide)
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
thought the david lynch co-op w/ duran duran thing was kinda strange... now they've allowed him to fuck with their album artwork?
― poll: who is your favorite rice krispie? (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
it bugs me that the image doesn't appear to be square
This always bugs me too. It happens a lot in cases where a physical cd will be released in non-jewel case packaging, making the art not squared, and then having to dig around in the depths of the internet to find a scan of the vinyl sleeve (if it was fortunate enough to be released on vinyl) just so I can have a square image to put in my iPod or upload to last.fm or whathaveyou.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I dig the battles one actually
― joygoat, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.utechrecords.com/Misc/GAOP.jpg
http://www.utechrecords.com/Misc/SOTE.jpg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
that first one gives me a headacheI like the second one tho
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm torn about that first one. feel like its been done a lot and those colors aren't my thing but there is something trippy about it that i like.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
locrian album on utech was my fave cover of 2010 and they are coming out with a vinyl version and i think i have to get it JUST for the cover. i mean i have the music already...
http://www.utechrecords.com/Misc/TCW_F.jpg
http://www.utechrecords.com/Misc/TCW_LP.jpg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Fact have got a feature up on the worst of the year so far:
http://www.factmag.com/2011/03/21/the-worst-sleeves-of-2011-so-far/
― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/wp-content/gallery/worst-sleeves-of-2011-so-far/worst003-peter_.jpg
^ I laughed heartily at this
― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
that acid house kings cover isn't that bad. if i were a big fan of the band i would love it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, there are only a few that are out-and-out terrible.
The Moritz von Oswald one is p. bad, but I guess it follows on from their previous album.
― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
^ can't avoid reading that album cover in anything but spartan-speak
― Radical Adults Lick Based God Style (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
man, the computer thing...ugh. DIY covers used to look charmingly shitty in the olden days. something about CDs or something. don't know what it is. i see hundreds of local self-released CDs every year and they are pretty much ALL terrible. and a lot of actual label releases have that same problem. they look like random flickr account pictures and terrible software lettering/fonts.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
what is it about the lettering? it kills half the current album covers i see. there are some good type choices here, but in general...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
really the only trend i can pick up is that the less attention drawn towards lettering, the more i end up liking the actual cover. if lettering is ever to take prominence, it should be sequestered away like here:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UMoebAEAL._SL500_AA280_.jpgor herehttp://www.ninebullets.net/wp-images/2009/PrettyHateMachine.jpg
i just generally dislike juxtaposition of any photograph with overlaying text. i'm really having a hard time thinking of exceptions.
― Radical Adults Lick Based God Style (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i quite like the acid house kings cover
― Love, M.D. (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
You're breaking this typography nerd's heart, kel. xp
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/wp-content/gallery/worst-sleeves-of-2011-so-far/worst005paul.jpg
I think this one is pretty cool.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm with Kelpolaris on the lettering thing; usually I feel that the less text there is on the cover, the better it looks. And the text should never be just on top of the pic, as it tends to mess up the picture. It looks much better when text is in its own box. The exception to this rule are the covers where the text is aesthetically integrated to the picture (like in the Super Paolo pic above), which can look nice. And of course there are some cool covers where the text is the picture, like with Daft Punk albums.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
unless Photoshop 3 filter presets are now cool as kitsch, that cover is just really offensive
― rockapads, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure 99% of the people who buy records don't know about Photoshop 3 filter presets, nor do they judge a cover based on whether or not they are used in it.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure you're wrong about the "99%" - especially in Super Paolo's case. Anyway, the Photoshop filter presets as graphic design kitsch was me being generous toward the designer of that cover. If it's not intentional it's just very poorly done.
― rockapads, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know from Photoshop, but that cover kinda sucks. Looks like a homemade cassingle from 1989
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
AND NOT IN A COOL WAY
kinda interesting to note that battles, or at least their marketing team, really thinks that album artwork really ... um, memorable or somethinghttp://drownedinsound.com/news/4142291-battles-album-art-and-billboard-campaign-revealed-stream-ice-cream
personally if i had never seen that i would've thought it was pseudo-viral marketing for big league chewhttp://mysocalledhealthlife.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/chew.jpg
― Radical Adults Lick Based God Style (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
It's silly-string, right? what's this "pink-bubblegum type stuff" crap? did these journalists have no childhoods? Anyway, really sad about what has happened to Thrice, overall, and that album cover is no exception.
― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the Gravesand Orchestra Pits one, even though it only has two search results in google?
― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
really sad about what has happened to Thrice, overall
i.e., they exist...?
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
staind dude goes country iirc
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51apak8vLKL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
would like it better if it didn't look stained
― rockapads, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
would like it better if it didn't look like a stock photo
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
so is it a city or a town. make your fucking mind up retard.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Tao_of_the_dead.jpg
Reminds me of:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/Labyrinth_ver2.jpg/220px-Labyrinth_ver2.jpg
The Japanese-only New Album by Boris -- what does it remind you of?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/New_Album_%28Boris%29.jpg
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
actually reminds me of ps2-era final fantasy games with that^, but i'm getting the sense that that you already have an answer in mind
― Radical Adults Lick Based God Style (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/littledragon_1.jpg
― gr8080, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Awkward Family Photos
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Friday, 25 March 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wiB96aMwL._SS500_.jpg
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Saturday, 26 March 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
little dragon is awwwwwful
― wavy g. wavegarten (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 26 March 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link