Noteworthy album covers of 2012

tbh, though, "Huh?" is kind of how I feel about Spiritualized anyway.

lame.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, February 24, 2012 4:40 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Meh

Makes the last couple of BJM covers look positively iconic.

Am I the only one who at first thought the Spiritiualized pic was some kind of a "no hotlinking" image?

http://www.monolake.de/files_images/cover/large/ml-026.jpg

Pretty cool, though I think that particular way of typing the artist and album name has been done to death in electronic music.

Yeah, that whole cover could be something straight out of the Touch Music catalogue

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/45575/425309c3.jpg

Santigold - Master of My Make-Believe

I actually kinda dig that one, but Kanye's going to be jealous.

lol thats amazing

is that santi in drag? also lol at wiley-style painting

yeah, i assume all four are her

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/41/48/4148646126-1.jpg

brass tax

Ha! My de facto username for many years was "brasstax" on a number of different sites...who is this?

i dont think she ordered so many eggs, or is possibly annoyed she didn't get as many as she wanted

part of her job is eating 13 eggs every morning

A veritable barfer's dozen.

Yum. Can't wait for breakfast.

Looking forward to the Chris / Cosey / Void record. I hope it is as trippy as the cover.

Could that Batida band possibly sound as cool as that cover looks? I'm probably going to be disappointed, right? What's his / her / their deal?

Love the Dntel cover (and I'm not a Dntel fan by any stretch of the imagination)

I love the Earth cover. The colors are spectacular.

http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/img/large/slr150-color.jpg

this got my hopes up that all copies were like this. just opened my copy to normal-ass black :(

I think they only pressed 500 that way (one of which I'm fortunate enough to own).

Whoever posted it in the thread didn't have any info, just a pic. I would have jumped :(

I didn't know it was limited until AFTER I'd posted/bought a copy. Only learned it when someone mentioned the pre-order was sold out.

Could that Batida band possibly sound as cool as that cover looks? I'm probably going to be disappointed, right? What's his / her / their deal?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, March 2, 2012 8:14 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

if you like energetic tropical dance music:

Soundway are set to release the debut album from Batida, the brainchild of Angolan / Portuguese DJ Mpula aka Pedro Coquenão. A distinctly modern and vibrant project with its feet firmly rooted in the past, Batida combine samples from old 1970s Angolan tracks with modern electronic dance music. Music is the starting point but through dance, graphics, photography, radio and video, Batida expands, taking in politics and social commentary but always bringing it back to the party.

Being the first of a string of brand new projects, this eponymous first album sees Soundway taking a slightly different direction in 2012 and beyond. Championed mostly for their work in un-earthing and re-releasing classic, rare and vintage tropical recordings, Soundway have started signing new acts that have drawn on and been inspired by the kind of music found on the label’s groundbreaking compilations and re-issues.

What originally started out as a radio show designed to promote new African music has slowly evolved into a collaborative project crossing continents.

Whereas nearly all of kuduro (Angolan electronic music) has no obvious references to its country’s musical heritage, it is deeply engrained in Batida’s music. Sampling tracks from 1970s Angola, Batida is a reinterpretation of Angola’s musical past, bringing it firmly into the modern day.

Batida’s high energy live show features dancers, live samples, percussionists, MCs alongside visuals and images (both archive and new) of Angolan streets, war and fragments of tribal life.

http://cdn.rap-up.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dawn-richard-armor-on.jpg

Dawn Richard - Armor On

I hate that ugly overused font, but cool photo/wardrobe idea.

So similar to the new School Of Seven Bells!

would look much better without the font. Looks like a watermarked image as is.

Also the font is ugly.

i have a weakness for tracklists on front covers

http://www.dafont.com/birth-of-a-hero.font

It's almost ubiquitous in low-budget cover art design at this point. Ick.

yeah, i'm not defending the font itself, just what it's used for.

Yeah, I do like large swaths of text in some situations, and if she'd chosen a different font I might have liked it here too.

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

haha!

The letter spacing on the word 'father' hurts my eyes. Funny cover tho.

Sinead O'Connor achieving the 3rd-tier Celtic-trad look here

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif

cf. Green Linnet record covers: http://greenlinnet.com

err...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HRoevuyhL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

yeah, mojo had that in their reviews section as the cover, whereas, amazon has the art as this :

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif

which is a little better ..

fuck. soz.

go look @ amazon, its different.

http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/node_article_image/files/sinead-oconnor-2012-album.jpg

Both are terrible but the first is at least interesting-terrible.

I caught her on some british TV show and the presenter (can't remember who it was) showed the cd and she was like 'THAT IS NOT THE COVER'

she was wearing lots of weird saggy pvc and had a horrible myspace tattoo as well

lol

that Fritz Kalkbrenner made my stomach drop when the effect started working

I've always liked the cover aesthetic for CDs released by Nonplace, and IMO the latest album by Burnt Friedman is their best yet:

http://www.irieites.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/burnt_friedman.jpg

http://static.boomkat.com/images/527237/333.jpg

http://www.technique.co.jp:88/photo/img/201202/NON33CD_2.JPG

http://nonplace.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/non33.jpg

Sorry about the multiple images, couldn't find any single pic where the cover was laid open.