Noteworthy album covers of 2012

That looks like the "Before" of the first Masters of Reality cover.

No, it's not the VHF one

Do people not Google their band name ideas or is it just cool to not care now? Cool album cover though and I even kind of like the song, except the vocals.

Do people not Google their band name ideas

Short answer? No.
Long answer? I think we're about out of suitable names if the hundreds of horribly named bands I come across at work every day are any indication. I'd rather have two artists named Doldrums than even one named Stony Danza or Forever The Sickest Kids.

i'll take unique over suitable any time. i'd rather someone call themselves shitfuck mcgillicuddy than be the 53rd band to call themselves spindrift

I'd say the first band to call themselves Spindrift fucked up.

probably

Doldrums in this case is prolly an Ariel Pink ref no? but yeah it is bone idle and it's not like you even came up with a killer name or anything come on man

http://static.boomkat.com/images/571992/333.jpg

Fur - Cocoon ...I'm a sucker for this sort of landscape painting, wonder who did it?

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2012-06/1338821472_cover.jpg

^ this shit is the worst though (Debruit - From The Horizon)

I mean, just look at that fucking glass horse

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

man, that grass widow is terrible

dig the alchemist

human woman and doldrums are p nice, too

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-leiz1n00dKA/Tl9H7TWaIRI/AAAAAAAABm8/yNNIoVDuB5I/s1600/KANDODO%2BFRONT%2BView.jpg
Kandodo- s/t

what's so notable about that waka album cover?

Notably crap obviously.

yeah but it's so generic either way i don't feel strongly about it

True.

though i guess just the basic work is pretty bad looking, looks kinda 90s and regional though, which is weird now cuz everyone seems to be a lot slicker at very least

kinda 90s and regional though

must... not....

Would never listen to a non-VHF Doldrums on pure principle. Hey look at me, I'm starting a band called Magnog. Ugh, these fucking kids.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61eByBhPsnL._SS500_.jpg

Anywhere - Anywhere

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61p0R1CYcOL._SS500_.jpg

Laurel Halo - Quarantine

Why did I add the Laurel Halo cover when we've already had it? Argh.

http://sezio.org/pix/fckeditor/image/01%20Zack/News/Mrs-Magician-Strange-Heaven.jpg

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

new Guardian Alien

The deer in the sky holding a book with his mouth makes it.

Last couple are good.

Mrs Magician working from the same palette as Carter Tutti Void, Best Coast, etc. Funny when things 'trend' so obviously. Can't accept that this is any more a coincidence than the 'bands with animal and beach-related names' thing

At least this doesn't give me a headache like the CTV album art does.

Pretty sure you can trace it back to Merriweather Post Pavillion

Black Angels were doing this steez before AC: http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Angels/e/B00197ENG0

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/couldyoudefine/576440_10150709004317064_1554204851_n.jpg
Landing - s/t

what is Anywhere like? that cover intrigues me

that landing cover is great and even though theres no type on the cover it's still nicely composed

anywhere is kinda folky psychy, suits the cover

riyl espers

Will check that out!

You can't see any of the landings on the Landing cover.

ha, i was thinking the same thing but it seemed too corny to point out

That Landing cover is okay, but it pales in comparison to one of the great staircase-featuring album covers of our time:

http://12kblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/12k1051mini.jpg

Shit, that's poor quality, so much for posting to this thread from an iPad.

Better version here: http://12kblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/12k1051mini.jpg

Para One - Passion
http://www.bf2d.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PARA-ONE.jpg

Looks like a Dali's Car album

Speaking of which...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kjtShaXeL._SS500_.jpg

eh, they don't have an apostrophe do they?

that "Parental Advisory..." sticker doesn't do the Para One cover any favours does it...

i dunno, it's kind of an amusing juxtaposition

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/dino-jr-newlp-6.12.2012.jpg

Have liked the wackiness of the past few Dino jr covers, but they're all kind of hideous to behold

love that (and the other recent ones)

ditto. way better than the art to bug anyway.