LateNightTales - MGMT This was a compilation that came out at the end of last year. Its part of a set called 'Late Night Tales' where the idea is to get bands to pick music that sounds good at night time, right? Every cover has a light of some kind on it, and I just think the colours look great on here. They're just really tranquil and vivid.
Iceage - New Brigade This album is loud, chaotic and bleak, so its no real surprise that the cover is full of pretty grim references. the cover is actually made using cut up photographs of fire and destruction to create this cross/symbol thing which looks pretty awesome if not slightly terrifying.
Metronomy - The English Riviera The artwork was taken from a poster by John Gorham in 1983. The illustration is immaculate and the shapes and the composition is so clean and slick, and the colours are just so warm and inviting. Its hard to believe that the poster in fact was advertising Devon, but there you have it. You can listen to the album and just stare at the album cover. That means it works in my book.
Bon Iver - Bon Iver When I first saw this cover, it just looked like a brilliant painting. When I found out there was all sorts of media going on in it, it just blew me away. It was created by Gregory Euclide and its just an incredible blend of watercolour, print and 3D stuff.
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves Some title huh? At first the cover might not like particularly special, but when I bought this album on record, the printed cover just looks amazing. Its so sharp but gloomy and its hard to work out if its a painting or a photograph. The album itself is full of really atmospheric synth pop and its so well produced that this atmospheric cover just works so well with it.
The Men - Leave Home From what i've seen, the label this album was on creates all its album covers in this rigid style. I really like that about it, because few album covers look like this these days, its almost like they've said, 'the label logo goes there, the title there, the tracks there and we'll put a picture there'. It just looks really elegant. Its quite amusing when you listen to the band and realise they're really loud fuzzy garage punks. You don't quite expect it.
Real Estate - Days It might not make sense to some people, but this is easily my favourite album of the year. I just think it looks brilliant. The typography just looks brilliant, and the image, which to some might be boring as sin, is just so well composed to me, and the colours are great. Theres not much else to say, I just think it looks class and there almost a really nice ambience to it, like you can picture yourself in the image, no wind, just quiet.
Wye Oak - Civilian Although the cover might look a bit emo, I think its really well captured and quite exciting. The colours are quite bleak, but who knows, whoevers jumping into the water might actually be having the time of their lives? The music itself might suggest otherwise, but I think it has a certain aura about it.
I hope that wasn't too boring for everyone, its just nice to write about something like this for a change rather than explaining screenshots about choosing font sizes, you know?
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