Noteworthy album covers of 2011

Not exactly new (or original), but I have a weakness for this kind of design:

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000003302281-xkp67w-original.jpg?0e4c383

Not sure why, but I find this one strangely compelling too:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TwoWWVwAC-g/TQ7VHKo8g4I/AAAAAAAAAcI/LaOt2WURyjU/s1600/cover.jpg

Coma Cinema - Blue Suicide.....really brilliant album actually. Anyone else heard it?

http://i.imgur.com/hmfs9.jpg

killer album, as well.

It's not witch house I hope? Like the cover.

Nope. Kind of like Zola Jesus, but more electronic and less melodic.

http://clytemscanning.bandcamp.com/album/armada

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gla04Y8dUak/TdPlsa-cVLI/AAAAAAAAAFg/Xk2pOOOecSE/s1600/Expo+%252770+-+Inaudible-500x500.jpg

that's sweet

http://mog.state51.co.uk/tid/32b7fcbe091d83f4bd6a8d325bab508a0619f69c/eggrhci/srgnqpkfe/3897443470054.jpeg

thats cool

that coma cinema cover is so dope i am downloading and thinking of buying the vinyl if it sounds good despite never having heard of them before

advisory circle is awesome! and though it seems easy, somehow, taragana pyjarama is lovely. recent favorites.

don't care for clytem scanning, expo 70 or babe rainbow. david lynch is awful, and i like most everything he does.

(don't know why i feel obliged to keep up this commentary. but i do.)

That Lynch art is v. reminiscent of the cover of Bill Evans/Jim Hall's classic 'Undercurrent' album (except nowhere near as beautiful).

Clytem Scanning an awful lot like Rid of Me

so close actually that I have a newfound unwarranted bias against it

wet hair vs. oily hair

This looks nice (triangle haters avert your gaze)

http://ubiquityrecords.com/mailer/ikebe-vinyl.jpg

Further goodness from Ubiquity

http://www.ubiquityrecords.com/shop/product_images/k/echo7_600__22114.jpg

did the new Rub N Tug 12" get posted yet?
http://i.imgur.com/1UOw8.jpg
title is Scanners Live Edit / All 4 U Instrumental btw

one of the only records ive bought so far this year and i cant stop staring at it

AWES

ubiqity & rub n tug designs are amazing, that's how to do

triangle covers seriously needs its own thread, this is getting insane

there's a point where trends eventually stop and this just isn't even remotely foreseeable with these guys

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chi-towns-finest-hip-hop/png.png

Cocaine 80s, The Pursuit EP

Had a listen to coma cinema yet Samuel? Curious to know what others make of it.

I enjoyed it! Reminded me of Of Montrael.

http://www.seizurechicken.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Gardens-Villa-cover.jpg

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkol2hMh5P1qivg0qo1_500.jpg

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/06/Pictureplane-Thee-Physical.jpg

Hah i was wondering how long before someone puts a Magic Eye poster as their album cover.

Pictureplane has a brief but solid history of completely sucking, so I'm in no way suprised it's him.

rub & tug one is the shit

New Wilco 7"

http://i.imgur.com/KN1v5.jpg

as boring as etc

u crazy

oh hey i drew a vaguely braquesque picture with a biro

reminds me of ok computer! right down to the font

johnny fever, where do you "go" for music? surprises me that you're even aware of pictureplane - he's basically the Head Boy at the local Denver DIY venue I go to near every weekend. And agreed, I sort of hate him - in music and real life.

reason for latter: he epitomizes the "condescending hipster stare", reserved a lot for me as i'm typically plain-clothes and admittedly am always conscious of looking "out of my environment" whenever i go to these places.

Stereogum went nutballs over Pictureplane a while back, so that's where I found out about him. Shortly after that, I stopped even visiting Stereogum.

Hah i was wondering how long before someone puts a Magic Eye poster as their album cover.

The Dave Matthews Band did this! Either way, I know what you mean... It was a chillwave inevitability.

Picture plane wins. I kind of miss having both a good and bad sleeve thread.

Tiger & Woods - Through The Green LP
http://i.imgur.com/nYA0B.jpg

fwiw their 12" releases all looked like this:
http://i.imgur.com/urnLG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XfLEi.jpg

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

The Nighty Nite / Dimples -- I know nothing of this, but like the cover. Like the lowest-budget Windowlicker remake ever

tiger & woods is worst new band name

^

they put out their first 12" within a week or two of the Tiger Woods Thanksgiving weekend scandal happening, and since most of their shit is unlicensed re-edits, they had to adopt a ~mysterious~ identity. i think the tiger woods thing was a dumb joke that just stuck after the success of the first release.

(they've done stuff as Cleo & Patra and Pop & Eye too.)

well, at least the cover's not as bad as the name.

it's worse.

http://www.media.514blog.com/2011/06/Azari-IIIs-new-single-Manic.jpg

Azari & III - Manic

I think I'll start a band called Kard Ashian

I mean Kard & Ashian

could have sworn I'd seen the lower one posted upthread but I can't find it

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnilbrMZwj1qdiho8o1_500.jpg