Noteworthy album covers of 2014

http://i.imgur.com/bP04N1V.jpg

I love this cover:

http://exclaim.ca/images/Silversun-Pickups-Singles-600x600.jpg

late 2013 technically:

https://f0.bcbits.com/img/a2410144629_10.jpg

http://www.jessekanda.com/arca1000000/andpic.jpg

The vinyl release of Arca's &&&&& mix

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5167aePXY8L._SS420_.jpg

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3556908290_10.jpg

http://smallwonder.bandcamp.com/album/wendy-2

http://m.spin.com/sites/all/files/140109-untold-black-light-spiral-album-cover-art.jpg

^ i like this image but the writing is clumsily done i think

I love this cover:

http://exclaim.ca/images/Silversun-Pickups-Singles-600x600.jpg

oh this is a crop of a photograph by asako narahashi, she is terrific, she would walk into the sea with her camera

http://www.nysun.com/pics/6687.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pT5dkMY.png

needs to improve his nappy-changing technique tbh but i'm sure he'll get there

Some great covers here by artists I don't care about (Silversun Pickups) and ones I've never heard of (The Jezabels)

http://dotsanddashes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/fuck-off-get-free-we-pour-light-on-everything-thee-silver-mt-zion-memorial-orchestra.jpg

oh this is a crop of a photograph by asako narahashi, she is terrific, she would walk into the sea with her camera

Thanks for this info; I have been a bunch of her work this afternoon. Some beautiful stuff.

I also love that she would walk into the sea with her camera sounds like it could totally be a Silver Mt. Zion album title a la the above cover

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CCult.jpg

This is really dumb but...

http://www.mexicansummer.com/shop/images/29283/MEX149%20-%20Cover%20(500)-2.jpg

Quilt - Held In Splendour

http://www.numerogroup.com/images/product_images/web/warfaring-strangers-darkscorch-canticles-1.jpg
http://www.numerogroup.com/images/product_images/web/cities-of-darkscorch-board-game-3.jpg

otm ^ board game looks cool too

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/53496/540a4b66.jpg

its 2014 and people still cant post artist and title

I know that one is the CEO album.

Sorry about that. The ones I posted were the new Numero comp, Warfaring Strangers: The Darkscorch Canticles, all 70's metal bands inspired by D&D.

omg,this D&D thing is amazing

http://www.bangonpr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Press_Release_Main/all%20loves%20legal%20AWAL_1400x1400_1_4.png

Planningtorock - All Love's Legal

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--3Hr6lnYaoA/UubbAXDQ6HI/AAAAAAAABCA/jSvuMdWhRUQ/s1600/Bohren+&+der+Club+of+Gore+(2014)+Piano+Nights.jpg

Oh Breezy...

http://i57.tinypic.com/2e2mivl.jpg

he's had much worse

Sadly true

this album is better than i'd expected but the cover art looks like it was made on a 2008-era iphone app

http://i.imgur.com/9mQTBWm.jpg

http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS2379543-02A-BIG.jpg

unfortunate letter-spacing

beck cover is nice enough

Some of these covers are amazing!

Is that wizard on a motorcycle a new cover? Cos a band in Atlanta called Chopper did that idea for a single years ago.

http://dzasv7x7a867v.cloudfront.net/product_photos/5769489/69841_original.jpg

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/as/wild-throne-blood-maker.jpg
Wild Throne- Blood Maker EP (Band used to be called Dog Shredder, lol)

Might as well end this thread now, as 2014 ain't gonna get any better:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/couldyoudefine/croz_zps8dd87195.jpg

reminds me of the roy harper album from last year

Hate the Beck cover- looks like a magazine ad as most covers from the past couple of years have.

on a serious note, I like this one:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/couldyoudefine/name_zps517325b2.jpg

Already have the original (itself with a sleeve image I'm really fond of), but I'm tempted by this on vinyl.

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/54206/258cb2ac.jpg
(The Clientele - 'Suburban Light')

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfK1MFnCIAIqL5B.jpg

fireworks: oh, common life

http://blastoutyourstereo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Japanther-cover-art.jpg

My friend Kim illustrated that!

http://picastro.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/top-pick-7.jpg

Picastro - You

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513wl9e4TuL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vxsu7Ew.jpg

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/20355/homepage_large.1b314148.jpg

http://geo-media.beatport.com/image_size/500x500/9117566.jpg
(Various Production's new alias)

http://vf-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/legowelt.jpg
Legowelt's Teen Romance 12" on LIES- I forgot to post this on the 2013 thread; still creepy as hell

https://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3223088366_2.jpg

Language of Faint Theory by The Hazey Janes.

Isn't that Hardware cover just the film poster?

One of them, yeah- on comparison it looks they did some minor touch-ups (flames in both eye sockets instead of a red laser dot in one, removed the cityscape background, degraded the image a little). I just thought it was a fun reference/appropriation/whatever.

...and here I was going to mention that seeing a track titled "3Jane" on the upcoming EMA album had me wishing for a late 80's/early 90's cyberpunk revival, only now it looks like the track's been retitled "Neuromancer." Subtle!

http://i.imgur.com/5zJbwcL.jpg

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/as/sandys-fourth-dementia.jpg

haha that is so great

if it was a photo it would be some sub-corny-indie garbage but as a painting i think it rules. btw i have no idea who it even is

I haven't seen it in person but I suspect Ghettoville is all about the packaging, ppl on discogs complaining about how cheap and rough it is and how it damages the records

i guess a million noise acts probably already wrote the book w/r/t "sculptural" packaging, though

lion lady = the cover art for Single's Rea, painted by their labelmate Javier Aramburu from the band Family. the rough American equivalent would be Devendra Banhart painting Joanna Newsom's face on a wolf's body, whereupon Joanna gushed about how "it's so empowering!" and "wolf is my spirit animal!"

it's very much a corny indie gesture, but I like it

An LP and 12" cover from Headlock, ambient guy on the Sci-Fi & Fantasy label that's released stuff from Lotic and Max McFerren (MCFERRDOG on 1080p):

http://scifiandfantasy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SCIFILP01_HEADLOCK-A-e1383067585826.jpg

http://scifiandfantasy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/All-Over-Animation-01.jpg

https://heathenharvest.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/burial-hex-the-hierophant.jpg
Burial Hex: The Hierophant

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2536486315_10.jpg
Kishi Bashi: Lighght

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2960834679_10.jpg
Dead Neanderthals: Prime

http://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/images/hires_products/emego202.jpg
Oren Ambarchi: Quixotism

http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/relic48.jpg
Thou: Heathen

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a4130006808_10.jpg
11 Paranoias: Stealing Fire From Heaven

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1960744180_10.jpg
V/Vm: The Death of Rave (A Partial Flashback)

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1477651558_10.jpg
William Ryan Fritch: Emptied Animal

Also,

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2977655260_10.jpg
Celer: Sky Limits

v/vm one reminds me of the beautiful south

Wow, didn't know there was a new Celer out this year! Great cover too.

Truants' most recent Functions of the Now mix, Air Max '97:

http://truantsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/10735901_10152416607220755_2093671385_n.jpg

There's an album cover I've been looking around for on these threads and other album cover lists but I can't find it.
It's from sometime in the past two years. A close-up of a guy's head with his mouth open, covered in shiny paints of different colours.

Sounds like something Battles would do. Except I don't think their album covers have people on them.

11 Paranoias - Stealing Max Ernst Paintings For Album Covers

xps probably not thinking of this but it came to mind

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2014/01/ceo-Wonderland-608x608.jpg

That's the one. Thank you very much.

Here's the cover artist's site.
http://www.porodina.net/

nico jaar - pomegranates
http://i.imgur.com/tcQhPbC.jpg

haha woops rong thred

http://i.imgur.com/ViBgVQI.jpg

E2-E4 TL;DR

Recently reissued on CD, but originally from 2014 as a largely inconvenient LP set

Zoviet France and Fossil Aerosol Mining Project ‎– Patina Pooling

http://cdn.discogs.com/n389Fr8yVHt6Kizcr0dWRiDZ0o0=/fit-in/333x333/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-6327603-1419089680-5521.jpeg.jpg

Might not be clear form the image, but it's an actual big chunk of rusty metal, not an image of a big chunk of rusty metal

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CY2vjPUWAAAUBmW.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4flNdzWlhU/VIhbLEypTZI/AAAAAAAAIj8/TwRMUclYY4Q/s1600/Zoviet%2Bfrance%2Bsteel%2Bsleeve%2B008.JPG

Wildly impractical and presumably damaging to the LPs and shelving around it, but really nice