Noteworthy album covers of 2011

Well there goes the cheque book & pen

http://www.dumbeyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/S.P.BlackUpVinyl-624x345.jpg

andross on very easy mode

http://s1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee464/tim_86/?action=view¤t=zola_1.jpg

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee464/tim_86/zola_1.jpg

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/crystaliine452.jpg

Bjork "Crystalline"

Is that a harp for her belt? I freaking WANT that. What a beautiful cover. (expected no less)

I like both of these!

^^^

Shabazz Palaces is niiice

matte black jacket feels all velvety soft, too, and the deep red inner sleeve looks amazing peeking out from within. great overall object design as well as nice imagery.

is shabazz palaces something i would like

also bjork's cover totally looks like a bjork cover

I have no idea whether you would like Shabazz Palaces but imo it is one of the best albums this year (along with DJ Quik & Beyonce).

you would like it because it is good

yeah, i think you might like it, gr8080, but that's more based on the fact that i like it and it seems p broadly accessible than any clear sense of your tastes. psychedelic indie hip hop w deep, dark, leftfield production.

Zola Jesus had to go f up a perfectly good retro cover by putting "an LP recorded in 2011" right below her name

i really like the zola jesus one

xp Sacred Bones does that on most of their releases.

yet to see a sacred bones sleeve i don't love xpost

really like the zola jesus, suspect it will be vinyl-only and thus I'll never get to own it >sigh<

last zola jesus and most sacred bones things are on cd, why is this different?

http://i53.tinypic.com/n6ui5x.jpg
DJ Phono - Welcome To Wherever You’re Not

This was from last year, but I've only just seen it:

http://f.bandcamp.com/z/18/00/1800354128-1.jpg

Everything about that is just wtff

sry if already posted, but digging this a lot tbh. i heard that the record's pretty good too.

http://hiphopwired.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/curreny-weekend-at-burnies-450x450.png?w=450&h=450

Surprised Currensy's other covers this year haven't been posted.

http://content.demboyzmusic.com/2011/02/currensy-mcc-front500.jpg

http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/system/files/covertcoup_0.jpg

http://edge-img.datpiff.com/mbe92977/Curreny_Return_To_The_Winners_Circle-front-large.jpg

I feel like I'm about 85 when I say this but AGGGH I am so over bands/songs named after famous people. STOP IT NOW.

And no more dollar signs.

It's cool. He's been Curren$y for 10+ years now, way pre-Ke$ha. Dollar signs hadn't jumped the shark yet back then.

Then he gets a pass. But all that Mickey Mickey Rourke garbage, et al can fall off a cliff.

don't like the weekend at burnie's cover at all, but muscle car chronicles is EXCELLENT

also, don't really want to like the DJ phono cover, but it creeps up, would like to see it propped up against my stereo table

muscle car chronicles is EXCELLENT

Cosign! Its Foetusishness is if anything strengthened by the Winner's Circle one, in a way I can't quite explain.

Mock-Arabic fonts/writing really bugs me (as does mock-Cyrillic, etc), so dnwts the Shabazz, nor Black Lips who are also doing this.

So apparently this is the deluxe edition cover?

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnvwb9Kckb1qz87lto1_cover.png

Wardrobe on og version is cooler, but overall feel on this is much better.

http://www.expatriarch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/panther-st.jpg

When I saw a small pic of this album cover online, I thought it was awful (looks like her face is covered with alien jizz or something), but when I got the album and looked at it closer, I kinda started liking it... As far as I can tell it's not a Photoshop effect, but a forest(?) picture superimposed on her head.

Too bad the actual album cover adds her name to the pic, thus making it a bit less cool:

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2011-06/1306957071_cover.jpg

Basically I don't think album covers should have any text at all, unless the text is in some way integrated to the picture, or if the cover has nothing but text. There are many cased where a cool image is tainted by the name of the band and the album.

I like that typeface, though. Very 40s/50s.

I dunno, it just looks too stark compared to the organic feel of the pic.

I might not have gone full black on that. Maybe a pale gray.

Kinda Covers Connection-y, too, no?
http://www.expatriarch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/panther-st.jpghttp://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/oddblood.jpg

http://unrealityshout.com/files/imagecache/image_460/charlie-simpson-young-pilgrim.jpg

anyone want to have a guess what obscenely-popular-for-now-at-least Tory folk band this cumlord is attempting to rub up against here

LOL @ cumlord

Cumlord & Sons.

CUM:LORD

http://i22.lulzimg.com/i/647db5.jpg

^ good

Goddamnitsaythenameofthebandandalbumtitle

This is so mid-90s it's unbelievable. "Created by Damien Hirst":

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/chili-fly.jpg

still, thats wayyyy better than most other RHCP covers.

^ really good