Sleep - "Jersulam"/"Dopesmoker" - C/D?

Brand new cover art, again!

http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sn158d-e1333380276402.jpg

Ned, Ned, Ned... beat you to it on the metal thread!

Ah well. But now it can celebrated here too. If that's the right word.

I like it on this thread too.

the art is good, but the fonts and font colors are atrocious. the writing was clearly done by a different person than the image. and that person should be fired.

otm

weedians iirc

That shade of lime green makes me want to clean my sink not smoke a bowl.

Font aside, best artwork of the three released versions of this imo. Not that I will be buying it a third time...

so thats what a procession of weedians looks like

the art is good, but the fonts and font colors are atrocious. the writing was clearly done by a different person than the image. and that person should be fired.

eh, i can hang with the retro space fonts, but this cover ain't a patch on the teepee edition from a few years back

looks like taller jawas leaving uncle owen's house

eh, i can hang with the retro space fonts

no you can't. the feel of the fonts are completely inconsistent with the image, and not in a way that's clever.

http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SleepCover300dpi-RGB-e1333384944852.jpg

this works a lot better imo, from the earsplit pr blog

this is better, but the green does not work. it should either be shade of green from the robes, or shade of the brown from the sands. and the font does not encapsulate the tone of the band at all.

the contrast works for me, what can i say? i like a little bit of pop in my graphics.

2nd version is much, much better though

i think the font works, its just the color is really wrong

you have to imagine it as a foil stamp, knowing southern lord

looks like they're already committed to that logo

http://weedian.com/files/products/23054_th_94.png

Actually, that top is amazing.

i think the font works, its just the color is really wrong

See, to me, the font evokes something good-natured, friendly, and somewhat futuristic. But it should evoke something mysterious, elaborate, hallucinogenic, and vaguely threatening. This was better communicated by the font on "Sleep's Holy Mountain," though even that album's art looked somewhat amateur and probably could have been greatly improved.

it's retro-futuristic, as is the album title. Very 70s, fits the sound of the band just fine.

album title font, I should say. Smoking dope is timeless.

xp: feh, the holy mountain art is magnificent and requires no mortal "improvement":

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vY8I5HvOvk8/SoR_vu6XCjI/AAAAAAAAIL8/NJ8gdb7STXE/s400/Sleep%2520Holy%2520Mountain.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vY8I5HvOvk8/SoR_vu6XCjI/AAAAAAAAIL8/NJ8gdb7STXE/s400/Sleep%2520Holy%2520Mountain.jpg

^ for those too stoned to click links

love how the 'ee' the new logo looks like a pair of lidded eyes glancing thataway

half want to read it as "bloop" though

it's retro-futuristic, as is the album title. Very 70s, fits the sound of the band just fine.

otm

Yeah I like it a lot.

T-shirt also awesome.

philistines.

http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SleepCoverSpreadArt-e1333384672854.jpg

i like the foldout even more

stonarz on tattoine

chewbacca approved

otoh you gotta give these guys credit for finding new reasons to design covers for the same album

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bOj1v_BgW2s/SoMs137RC2I/AAAAAAAAAN0/02l9I4-Rksw/s1600/Sleep+-+Jerusalem.jpg
http://www.remnantsofreason.com/temp/images/reviews/Sleep_Jerusalem_cover.jpg
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/sleep/album-dopesmoker.jpg

fwiw, i have no idea where that second one came from, fan made?

So it turns out it's part of a bigger painting:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/528504_10150799941128689_728803688_11693890_610822546_n.jpg

lol

o rly?

Weedian on the Edge of Time

Yeah that image badly needed an odd sailboat-shaped spacecraft. I was really worried for a moment there

the cover is a fractal that can be infinitely zoomed out

IIRC the second cover was by arik moonhawk roper

who is no doubt a fan but i think more to the point kind of a "band bro"

if roger dean is an honorary member of yes then arik roper is an honorary member of at least half the good stoner metal bands out there

sadly it looks like he's removed a ton of his illustrations from his website, it's a much fancier website now but has way less of his art and a lot less of his early hand-drawn work which appeals to me more than his new oil painting style

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lntt4140321qc95xvo1_500.jpg

i think this new cover must be by roper, too. craggy peaks, loose brush for the lines, basic look of those overgrown jawas and their weird dromedary. couldn't be anyone else.

way less of his art and a lot less of his early hand-drawn work which appeals to me more than his new oil painting style

yeah, feel the same, but he probably gets sick of people saying they liked his early stuff better. my favorite moonhawk:

http://image.musicimport.biz/sdimages/upc07/690989000421.jpg

http://image.musicimport.biz/sdimages/upc07/690989000421.jpg