Noteworthy album covers of 2012

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.

what's that sound like? it's gorgeous.

favorite ones on this thread are monolake and wooden shjips. love the earth one, too. bought that lp tonight and the girl who checked me out was all proud on behalf of her friend, who happened to have done that particular cover!

into this:

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2012/03/Matthewdavid-Jewelry-608x608.jpg

matthewdavid - jewelry

That looks as though there are cutouts on the foreheads--is that so?

http://magiska.vlsweb.net.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/cover2-400x400.jpg

v #rare and #based album cover. not sure about #secrete tho.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/photosizer/upload/anathemaweathersystemscover.jpeg

http://www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/whirr-pipe-dreams-400x400.jpg

http://gallery.mailchimp.com/f8a522aed8c526a8208b32684/files/netherfriends_middle_america_web.jpg

yeah those three are terrible

That Middle America/Netherfriends thing is pretty cool, actually.

Hah I know that Netherfriends guy. He's on a mission to record a song in every state in the USA. Really nice dude.

i wonder if the Anathema one was done using an iphone app

http://tinyplanetphotos.tumblr.com/

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/frying-on-this-rock.jpg
White Hills- Frying on this Rock

beach house - bloom
http://i.imgur.com/hIh35.jpg

awful

trypophobia thread is thataway

gah, there hasn't been a "noteworthy" album cover posted since the break. burnt friedman art is kind of cool in a "looks like a detail from a mati klarwein painting" sense, but other than that...

fu if you don't think God's Father cover is notable

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2012-03/1331036180_cover.jpg

New Build - Yesterday was Lived and Lost

Posted here for its terribleness btw

New Album is Sad, a Lemon

Apologies if this has already been posted- I'm on a phone and can't see images- but holy crap, I love this:

http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/8317/laurel_halo_quarantine_1332348513_crop_550x550.jpg

good god, why?

Ok, never mind

no, i hate everything, don't worry about me

i think its great.

yeah, i love it

was gonna post it here but i could only find small versions

Turns out it's a detail from the painting Harikiri Schoolgirls 2002 by Makoto Aida

http://www.lassiwithlavina.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ACAW-AIDA.jpg

There's a piece about the painting here btw:
http://boingboing.net/2010/09/03/makoto-aidas-schoolg.html

okay, this drawing is p great:

http://boingboing.net/features/aida/harakiri.jpg

the digitally dicked with version posted above, otoh, is hideous. and i dunno, i feel like i have at this point seen enough manga-style japanese art depicting cleverly butchered schoolgirls to last me a fucking lifetime.

http://www.tomentosarecords.com/gpssalp.jpg

^great record

(sylvester anfang II)

that is: Silvester Anfang – Perzische Tapijten (2012)

interesting note: first pressing of 500 sold out. 250 more currently being pressed. pressing denoted by 1st in rougher matt sleeve, 2nd in glossy sleeve…

one of those rougher matt sleeve pressings took a beating in transit

http://exclaim.ca/images/strange1.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx90unL2yZ1qcvrtro1_500.jpg

silvester anfang ii looks pretty great! hard to tell w such a small pic, but thumbs up