Noteworthy album covers of 2014

http://i.imgur.com/8itspcv.jpg

gahh!

wtf is that?

fuckin awesome is what it is!

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