Noteworthy album covers of 2012

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.

Yikes

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/617YA9E4wIL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Intrigued by White Suns cover: what sort of music is it?

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/rom/june12/FLAMING-500x500.jpg

The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends - horrible idiotic album title but I quite like the cover

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/rom/june12/2door-500x500.jpg

^ hate this though, it's Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon

Camel toe night light.

the flaming lips one is intrstng

new AnCo reminds me of The Bends and Zooropa

yeah gr808 is otm maybe that sort of erm... aesthetic is what they were going for. I've no idea what to say about that Cat Power cover. Is everyone become chillwave / seapunk now?

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.

― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB)

MPP is one of their best album covers, tho.

For two minutes, then the novelty wears off and is henceforth just a headache inducer.

^^^

Is there a thread for album covers + optical illusions? I can't think of that many. There's MPP, Santana's s/t, Soulwax

kone - legend days

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/19/25/1925204990-1.jpg

sonnymoon - s/t

http://www.plugresearch.com/sonnymoon/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/sonnymoonLP_465X465.jpg

great

more sonnymoon goodies

http://www.musicismysanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/artworks-000016692874-n55c2n-original.jpg

http://inqmind.co/content/2012/02/sonnymoon-just-before-dawn/sonnymoon-just-before-dawn_616.jpg

http://5166-hypetrak.voxcdn.com/images/2012/04/sonnymoon-wild-rumpus.jpg

White Suns is a) gorgeous, b) now something I need to check out (the Dusted review describes it in terms of a pigfuck revival, I WANT) and c) reminds me of the upcoming John Maus comp:

http://www.ribbonmusic.com/label/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/JohnMaus_RaritiesCVR.jpg

(apparently a 2004 photo of the transit of Venus)

http://www.thefixx.com/pics/fixx-coverart-1337500425.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51oz0xX7xtL._SS500_.jpg

The Miaoux Miaoux reminds me of:

http://cdn.ghostly.com/images/artists/4/albums/238/GI-76_cover_540_540.jpg

and something else I can't put my finger on at the moment...

Mainly this, for me
http://discosalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/oddblood-12inch.png

Cracking stuff on those Sonnymoon sleeves

Can I just say that this thread has convinced me that, yep, I hate optical illusion cover art?

kinda bothers me that the stem doesn't go between letters

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m68aqbNG3I1qc1kg8o1_500.jpg

Oh No - Ohnomite

http://www.inqmind.co/content/2012/05/oh-no-ohnomite/oh-no-ohnomite_616.jpg

Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/wwm/ABBA/ty-segall-slaughterhouse-630x630.jpg

if ohno had just put the doom character of the graf as a central factor then i'd love it more, as it is, the end result, is very ukhh 2005.

then again that could be the intention.

oh, and that ty cover = animal collective styled crap.

no amount of persusion will convince me otherwise ..

ukhh?
animal collective styled crap?

ohno = generic ukhh cover from a different decade (no real evidence of this other than HHC mixtapes .. )

ty = more shyte a la animal collection

no real visual connection, other than a lack of style/imagination.

Ha, still no clue what you're talking about but I'll take your word for it.

I think that Ty Segall illustration is pretty striking.