Noteworthy album covers of 2011

dig this one a lot, but don't think it's particularly original
http://1146miles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Friends-Friend-Crush.jpg

mostly b/c it just feels like
http://www.goner-records.com/cart/images/mbv_you_made_me_realise-1.jpg
+
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/c/cocteau-twins/album-heaven-or-las-vegas.jpg

Which one do you dig? Am I missing an image before MBV and CT?

oh! no, i meant i *liked* the Friends cover but really more for the nostalgia it evoked than it being anything particularly innovative.

but for the count, that You Made Me Realise cover is likely in my top 5 album covers

er, yeah, guess it didn't show. here's another link:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aCoOXCDk4IU/TaODBmKxpsI/AAAAAAAAADw/xvmred8kwUQ/s320/Friends-Friend+Crush.jpg

Are you talking about this? It's not showing up in your original post

http://bandcamp.com/files/41/17/411773697-1.jpg

(love that song, btw)

Ah, thanks for clearing that up! Didn't see the friend crush cover in your original post. And assumed you weren't talking about Weird Al's record being a cross between the two lovely covers you put up ;-)

I'm intruigued by this Friends one btw.

They've got one of the most google-proof names in the world, so here's a helping hand: http://www.facebook.com/sdneirfbackwards

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5098/5456467150_d890d308ac.jpg

I would like the Friends cover more if it said FRANS

lol'd irl ^

another
http://images.wikia.com/lyricwiki/images/1/18/Damon_%26_Naomi_-_False_Beats_And_True_Hearts.jpg

Oh good, it's time for another Damon & Naomi album I'll listen to once, like very much, and then file away never to be listened to again.

Thanks for the link Johnny! Wouldn't have guessed 'Sdneirfbackwards'...

I like the Damon & Naomi cover. Unfortunately it will pretty much go like mr. Fever described up here. Which is so stupid of me because I do really like it, nearly all albums. For some reason they get marginalised in my mind.

from last year, but I love this:
http://www.theuntz.com/userfiles/Glowing-in-the-Darkest-Night.jpg

reminds me of the moulton joint

Font reminds me of those cool Star Trek paperbacks

Looks like the cover of a Joe Haldeman book.

he's got a few like that (also from last year):
http://whatimg.com/images/81830269039802044467.jpg
http://whatimg.com/images/00358076595607955337.jpg

too bad the music is shitty

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http://i.imgur.com/qQ83o.jpg

http://youlookdeath.ly/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/JOHN-MAUS-WE-MUST-BECOME...-575x575-470x470.jpg

http://thenewgay.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/girls-names.jpg

effing great record, btw

wow I love that one

Pretty Lights covers are so good. Love that pulpy scifi paperback vibe.

It's unfortunate that he's so awful. He's from a local college town here in CO, Fort Collins, and is p much a shining example of frat boy electro.

admittedly his moniker tho stems from his light shows, which i've seen and are pretty neat. on drugs.

here's the artist's flickr: dan mcpharlin

his EP is pretty good but the sleeve art is horrible
http://minimalistica.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Lee-Foss-Your-Turn-Girl.jpg

gross

I don't hate it.

http://www.basedworld.com/wp-content/plugins/random-image/blackken/LilB-BlackKenArt2.jpg

i think i love it

Oh MY.

i just wish he could emphasize the female dolls' nipples a bit more.

needs to be the cover for "I'm Gay" imo

http://shinkoyo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/skeletons_people440.jpg

like that one a lot.

here's the artist's flickr: dan mcpharlin

― flow (chilli), Monday, April 25, 2011 4:16 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

thanks. I'm going to have to buy some of this shit. Incredible.

Not so much for the xcover itself, but for the execution of the whole package, the new Explosions in the Sky

http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/images/tc_preorder3.jpg

See I think that Girls Names looks like a hundred other Altered Zones/chillwave covers. That whole aesthetic is just boring for me now, even if it is a pretty photograph.

i like it a lot, it reminds me of something else that i love i can't quite put my finger on. doesn't hurt that the album is really great too

i love this though, although i don't expect anyone else to. i love every cover this band has done

http://bandcamp.com/files/35/44/3544643231-1.jpg

it reminds me of something else that i love i can't quite put my finger on

Reminds me of Depeche Mode ca. Violator art, at least in feeling.

black ken is like 2 years old

http://www.underwaterpeoples.com/images/stories/JLTerraFront72.jpg

total blah

but as typing that i know there's at least 5 dudes within a 2mile radius of me that would take one look at that, swallow and stand quietly for a while before declaring, "THIS. IS. ART."

cover connection

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/amorica_large.jpg

http://www.underwaterpeoples.com/images/stories/JLTerraFront72.jpg

I see vaginas in everything though

oh man, Skeletons are bros of mine. like that their shit gets love.

that art museums album is v. nice! agree with the strange familiarity -- kind of a "miami vice" interpretation of abstract/pop art? not sure how to describe it, but they nailed a very specific aesthetic there.

Art Museums reminds me of Tusk, for some reason. Obviously it's like a lot of '80s covers as well.

You know Skeletons, table? I kicked about with Tony a bit when he was over in the UK for a while and saw them play - lovely guys and a great band.