Noteworthy album covers of 2012

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.

This is unsettling

http://lovethisgiant.com/site/images/lovethisgiant_ken.jpg

an album cover like that is usually to distract from a shitty album

Maybe, but the first mp3 is kinda cool.

http://pictures.mastermarf.com/blog/2009/090622-007-unsee-it.jpg

an album cover like that is usually to distract from a shitty album

― lamborghini persie (J0rdan S.), Thursday, June 14, 2012 1:59 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh c'mon david byrne just has tons of wack/wacky ideas, i don't think he's the slightest bit self-conscious about whether his record is good when makes some goofy video or cover art for it

http://www.silentradio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WhiteManna.jpg

Holy Mountain consistently put out gorgeous-looking records. This is the White Manna album, don't think it's one of their best covers, but still pretty nice. Anyone head it yet btw?

Koi Pond - So Higher

http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS453487-01A-BIG.jpg

http://www.itsthebinomusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/fiona-apple-idler-wheel1.jpg

That koi pond is amazing, what are they like?

Fiona apple cover is kind of amazing in that it looks like something that should be coming out on limited edition cassette not a major label

I haven't listened to koi pond, so I don't know really. Just saw it on a leak blog.

fiona apple would be good w/o the text at the bottom ruining it

deluxe edition looks nice http://i.imgur.com/RcQqF.jpg

+2 curious about Koi Pond based on cover art

http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Koi+Pond/

If you click on the album art, a box will pop up with streaming samples. Sounds cool.

Cat Power - "Sun"

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ole-773-Cat-Power-Sun.jpg

wowza

http://nofearofpop.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/880918207117.jpg

Vestals - Forever Falling Toward The Sky

I like the Vestals. The Cat Power doesn't do anything for me though.

my wowza was at her haircut rather than the cover.

I like the haircut.

she looks adorbable. crappy cover though.

"Forever Falling Toward The Sky" sounds like some 2002 shit to me

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2012/05/Gary-War-Jareds-Lot.jpg

Gary War - Jared's Lot

I really like that cover.

Fuck this shit

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/46913/fd610a74.jpg

^^deserves all the hate an Animal Collective album cover will eventually get

well, it's an album cover for 2012 we might have expected once upon a time

https://richreviewz.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/whitesuns_sinews_cvr.jpg

white suns "sinews"
my favorite album of the year, so far.

that animal collective cover is just... yuck.

Yeah, that is hugely offputting ugliness.

Seems wierd that once upon a time I loved most of their artwork, then from Starwberry Jam onwards they have just embraced such godawful clumsy garishness.

weird even

getting trypophobia vibes from that last one.

Looks like a Polish movie poster for Prometheus.