Noteworthy album covers of 2011

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

Goddamnitsaythenameofthebandandalbumtitle

― She Got the Shakes, Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:46 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

sorry, mine was Lovers Do by Bruno Pronsato

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnxkx3krv51qa91dpo1_500.jpg

http://cdn02.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/GIRLS-575x575.jpg

http://ninjatune.net/files/images/toddla-t/two/Toddla-T-Watch-Me-Dance-ALBUM.jpg
Horrible cover, great album

great t-shirt

was just coming to post the Mastodon cover.

i hated the last couple mastadon covers but that is excellent

reissue but i love this

http://www.bobbtrimble.com/images/crippled600.jpg

that just looks like it sounds horrible, maybe in an 'ironic' way

I thought it had never been issued until now?
I like that photo, hope we get it at the radio station.

well i guess it's agrey area, apparently Bobb had 500 pressed back in 1983 but threw them all away when he parted ways with the band.

bummer

love the mastodon cover! want scary wood cow with which to furnish my chalet.

trimble cover is cool, would look comfy sitting next to hobo's lullabye, therefore successful.

holy shit @ mastodon cover, can't decide if it's brilliant or appalling

both!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iRK2KK9AL.jpg

http://citizendick.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/kr66.jpg

their last show they played live:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qI2IYmbGcu8/ThJQUKlGhXI/AAAAAAAABbU/CbJF3ZqnsLU/s1600/0tEiS.jpg

Both the Alice Gold and Grooms make me want to check out those records: job done.

yeah, i saw the alice gold album in the racks yesterday, and thought i need to check up on that.

that TWS cover is stunning.

Looks like the Shrinebuilder cover during winter.

something about the "seven rainbows" text ruins that cover for me. too small, bad font, etc.

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

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supposed to be a penis?

.. said the actress to the bishop

yeah the seven rainbows text ruins it for me too. Looks like an afterthought.

the mathias stubo would be great if it wasn't called 1979. Think it kills it for making the aesthetic a bit obvious.

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

Komodo - Music Akamady 12"
http://i.imgur.com/tV0bM.jpg

quite like this one for Le Galaxie's Laserdisc Nights 2

http://niteversions.com/uploads/Le-Galaxie-Laserdisc-Nights-2-490x490.jpg

^ by DW Design, lots of great work here http://www.myspace.com/dwisdesign

komodo is v dope

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/284/126/574/12657415/600x600.jpg

Awesome!