Noteworthy album covers of 2012

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.

ukhh = uk hip hop
hhc = hip hop connection, a cult british rap rag that closed down about 5 years ago and was way better than source/xxl/fader/other. also used to have a monthly covermount cd often w/ generic graf/cartoon type covers.

problem with ohno cover is that doom is the only recognisable cartoon, the rest are hard to pick out

ty hoy hoy

cheers for the clarification a hoy hoy ..

me bad/drunk.

I can't make any connection between Animal Collective and the Ty Segall cover at all.

I can. It's part of the new trend of willful ugliness for the sake of it.

also ukhh p much died with hip hop connection, as far as i can tell. lots of the dudes seemed to drift into this lame kinda-electro/kinda-dubsteppy poprap thing since but its not the same, even if dudes are finally earning. its a shame tho, so much of my teenage years was spent on buses reading about some white dude in nottingham, listening to early 1xtra mixtapes with talented guys freestyles who you never heard of again.

i assure you no rapper in america has ever cared about something called "ukhh"

which is why kool g rap is on my favourite record from that time!

humor me

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RSFDZJBGuAU/Rxw2B4ZlkNI/AAAAAAAAADU/rXIPCyZiV3Y/s400/klash.jpg

but yeah, americans in not really caring about anything from outside usa shocker

there's stuff outside the usa?

we don't believe you, you need more people

:D

that flaming lips and heady fwends cover posted above is the vinyl cover from record store day. the cd that came out today has a terribly cheap looking picture of kesha rubbing wayne coyne's feet.

here it is...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6180ccJDVrL._SS500_.jpg

anim coll covers always bright, colorful, often photos, often digitally manipulated; ty segall cover is black and white drawing - great comparison

come on dude

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/wwm/ABBA/ty-segall-slaughterhouse-630x630.jpghttp://www.mbvmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/theeohsees-mastersbedroom.jpg

yeah i was thinking more oh sees / woodsist kinda thing

ty segall has an anus for a throat.