Noteworthy album covers of 2011

oooh that is cool!

cover connections w/
http://www.sleazeroxx.com/censored/amorica1.jpg

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Yeah, before seeing the actual product I really dug the horsevag cover. I mean it's stupid but v memorable... this thread'll continue on into next year and I'll prolly only retain about 6 or so as really ingraining themselves upon my mind.

Or it could just be the hormones speaking.

love the hauschka one. besides der salon des amateurs is a wonderful location to pass time as well.

love the horsecrotch one

Horsecrotch is very hypgnosis

minus the text anyway

http://cdn04.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Benefit-for-the-Recovery-in-Japan-Part-1-575x575.jpg

trippy pokéball art

new Jesu cover art v. much in character

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/jesu_1.jpg

listening to this right now and kinda can't stop staring at the cover. anyway THIS is how you letter a cover:

http://cdaltry.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/fabian-hold-that-tiger1.jpg

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tf is w/ those dimensions. it looks like its turned on it's side.

skot, is that one of those super glossy covers (like Cameo-Parkway)? I love those

yes! pop art that pops right out at you. i was holding this album the other night and it has to be one of the most beautiful album covers ever made. the colors are just staggering. just everything about it is staggering. you really have to see one in real life.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20100408/350338269326.jpg

(and most copies are standard mono so you don't even have the stereo thing at the top to break things up.) genius 20th century art.

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Suprised by the hate for the Bonnie/Sweeney cover; I love it. Love the Rene Hell one, too.

Cosign, love both!

http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fever-main-320x320.jpg

to like or not to like

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xOqOyhvWL._SS500_.jpg

Looks like the last Manics album.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wWrgtDCmL._SS500_.jpg

Looks like Power Corruption & Lies!

Or Wilder

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/natbaldwincover.jpg

- tall weeds must make him itchy
- is he playing basketball there or going somewhere else?
- maybe he just bounces the ball off the wall by himself #nofriends
- he is v cuet

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

I was wondering why they were going to appear on Jimmy Fallon tonight, but now it makes sense.

btw, zzzzzzzzzzzz

ugh they called it Turtleneck and Chain? UGH

i bet there's a funny song on it about wearing a turtleneck and a chain

someone wearing a turtleneck beats them with a bike chain :D

3/5 of the albums reviewed by pf this morning have nude/partially nude women on the cover.

http://www.parisdjs.com/images/counter/The_Death_Set-Michel_Poiccard_b.jpg
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/lastofthecountrygentlemen300.jpg
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/unkle_1.jpg

It's Boobie Tuesday! (cue music)

The Josh Pearson one is esp. annoying given the ironic(?) title of the record; I've been meaning to post that one here myself. The other two are just ugly.

Katy B On A Mission LP cover is a disappointment - I suppose the intention was to 'keep it real' but it just looks cheap and nasty to me. Also, I hate blue tint.
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/katyb_.jpg

http://cdn03.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TYLER-THE-CREATOR-GOBLIN1-575x575.jpg kinda hate the pink, love the pic

so edgy, so fresh

Thats only the deluxe edition cover though, I like it better than the standard.

what does the standard look like?

wild bill iirc

It says FAGG0T in comic sans

like the album cover, but the upside-down cross - both in application on the art here and w/ Odd Future in general - just seems like overkill. it's like "look, here's MORE things to remember us by!!". I mean their ridiculously long name is enough.

not a huge fan, but can't find fault with that album cover. seems to sum up their aesthetic really well.

^^ otm

the upside down cross evokes the chillwave witchhouse aesthetic

the goblin deluxe is cool cuz i don't think any OF release has had an image of the artist on the cover -- also a portrait shot is a pretty common cover motif in rap but the font/upside down cross still keep it grounded in their aesthetic

prefer the wild bill cover personally

i don't think any OF release has had an image of the artist on the cover

1st mellowhype

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-06rsd8w9SYI/TYwFMi42HLI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/aUTtNFR4sng/s1600/mountains.bmp

Looks like a ring of Tylenols on a blue napkin.

Or a puka shell choker.