Noteworthy album covers of 2011

dunno how my brain made the connection but everytime i see that woodkid cover i immediately think
http://nicekicks.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp/files/2010/06/video-icon-x-icon.jpg
as if there's no other dudes in the universe w/ baseball caps and round faces

(eric koston btw, if you never grew up playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater)

Lol nice one kel

http://www.ssgmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/shabazz-palaces-black-up.jpg

good lord that is terrible

90s ftw

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uq7s_lukcNY/TVMyoljx61I/AAAAAAAABHk/Mpg-NMr0cFg/s400/bnjmn.jpg

ha very 90s

Except that the 90s would've demanded the pattern to be in some bright colour and the text to be in some other bright colour. B&w is boring.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/couldyoudefine/BB70_cover300dpi.jpg

http://www.pigradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metronomy-The-English-Riviera-510x510.jpg

Thought this was quite neat at first but now I think that tree is not quite right

I don't know what to say about that, but I love those colors.

And it has to be said, that is 1,000s of times better than their previous album.

The fronds are totally lifelike, but I'm not sure a trunk that thin would support them (or maybe it would...there about so many different kinds of palms).

^ exactly what was bugging me! They've gone too close to the edge of the trunk with their axis of reflection.

Perhaps they weren't going for verisimilitude here.

Maybe it's some kind of English palm tree we don't know yet.

MEHtronomy

Dude that tree looks like, I dunno, pubic hair sort of? Definitely kind of wrong somehow

been on 2 diff comput0rz for this thread and the tree album is looking radically different color-wise on this public computer. i mostly blame kids fucking w/ the settings but from what i remember when i saw it earlier the tree wasn't "set" during night-time

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/764/20110405dalshabet.jpg

lol phallic imagery

HALLO we are LOUDNESS!

that rocket is killing me

kinda disappointed that the Kreidler album is just a pattern and not a stereogram

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/metal/various/stevienickslp.jpg

As far as "new records by people who've been making records for close to 40 years" go, that's actually not as c0rny as it could've been. Generally, people who peaked in the 70s and 80s do not understand the photoshops, though.

the flare looks like she is being attacked by a giant bubble a la "the Prisoner"

i was actually wondering if that was her or a much younger lookalike

I've seen her in an interview w/in the last year and her face looks like that now. Dunno if it's plastics or botox or what, but something's going on.

definitely does look a very young her...she must have a good surgeon. Or a good photoshopper

clearly not the latter

for her face, not the album cover in general I mean :)

awesome cover

Going back to that Metronomy cover, how lazy is it to use the official promo poster for the English Riviera and cut the bit of the bottom that says "ENGLISH RIVIERA TORQUAY PAINTON BRIXHAM"? The reason it looks like a 70s design is because it is:

http://talktorbay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/english_riviera_poster.jpg

Haha, wow.

Also, I am so bummed that they bottled it and photoshopped out the unicorn's horn on the Stevie Nicks cover.

Okay, stealing from England's yesteryear, way to fucking go. It looks great in that creamy frame though.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MX2GqGCwO4I/TIBrjZ5lSPI/AAAAAAAAC54/iU7f5S243pQ/s400/51qpdpgel.jpg

easy target but really come on now

Unity, motherfucker.

That kids gonna twist his fuckin ankle bad though. Christ, Franti looks like some alternate-dimension Zappa.

Haha he really does!

Only in it for the money etc.

I will never tire of a translucent paint splatter writing over a black & white photo (well, maybe not never...but you have to go a long way to fuck it up imo)

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/Tab51_3FQXI/AAAAAAAAAo8/BqKl7Mw4Uko/yasmin_finishline.png

God yes, that's on the cusp of '90/'91

has this one been posted yet cause...

http://www.lintcoat.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ps_sobeautiful_cover.jpeg

The Metronomy / Riviera cover tree is symmetrical, isn't it? Which is why it feels wrong.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/metal/various/stevienickslp.jpg http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/images-3/heather-orourke-poltergeist.jpg

like the paul simon one actually

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

<3 the Stevie Nicks cover

Hah Balkans are on ILM now. They really are about to blow up.