Noteworthy album covers of 2013

I guess in the case of The Knife I'll let it pass because the singles and videos have been at least cohesive in their aesthetic laziness.

Yeah seeing MBV vinyl in a store for $45, I took a real close look at the cover art to see if I was missing something in only seeing it as a JPG on my computer screen and no I wasn't. It really does look like the background on a poor 2003 MBV Myspace fansite. It was like the album was daring me to buy it and it lost, horribly. And of course the new Bowie LP sitting next to it turned the whole situation into a farce. Truly our greatest artists are pushing the envelope of not giving a shit, at least that's how it appears.

Strokes one sort of makes me think of whenever you see a website that is a bunch of movies done in the style of Penguin Book covers or something. Cool, you can make something that looks like it's old. Good job, dude.

The MBV is particularly offensive considering the 22 year span between this one and Loveless.

That said, here's some artwork from this year which I wouldn't displaying in my collection. From the looks of it, I really naked ladies and horses.

http://i.imgur.com/TPBXef3.jpg

From the looks of it, I really naked ladies and horses.

Is your real first name "tumblr"?

And the artists in case you're curious: Daniel Romano, Keaton Heason, La Femme, Falty DL, Apparat, Banque Allemande, Foals, Heaven Shall Burn.

From the looks of it, I really naked ladies and horses.

Is your real first name "tumblr"?

― Johnny Fever

But, I also like cartoons and shiny colors!

and it should read *i really like.

i scrolled thru quickly and didn't see this:

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/uploads/article_images/31543Sm2351all-Black-Limits-Of-Desire.jpg

I was happier when I didn't see it, either.

And the artists in case you're curious: Daniel Romano, Keaton Heason, La Femme, Falty DL, Apparat, Banque Allemande, Foals, Heaven Shall Burn.

― Moka, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 6:22 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Listening to the La Femme one now on the basis of its cover. Sounding very nice this sunny morning.

I sort of want Daniel Romano's suit.

http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/96298963/KMFH_web_tbp.jpg

Kyle Hall - The Boat Party

i like that one, but i wonder if it will make people think of dzokhar tsarnaev.

well now it is

too schoon, guys.

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/deafheaven.jpg

i like that one. reminds me of the palette tool on MS paint and other programs. that was always sort of magical to me as a kid, as there was an infinity of subtleties between two visibly identical shades. good evocation, Sunbathers.

OTOH, not a welcome gradient on the skin of a sunbather.

yes, it looks like a massive sun-poisoning blister.

love the kyle hall cover

re Sunbather I like to think of it as the color of sunlight through closed eyelids

That's nice, anonanon. Your association with eyelids staring at the sun has made me like this cover.

sweet. the dissolving text is a nice touch and apropos too. and all this for a black metal album

ok, an apparently shoegazey post-rockin black metal album, but still

been a while...

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2013/04/The-So-So-Glos-Blowout-608x608.jpg

Wait what? That's a black metal album? That one is misleading for sure.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/601280_10151385359676234_1731076794_n.jpg

http://www.sheandhim.com/images/she&him.jpg

Moka yeah Deafheaven is nominally black metal but based on a preview track, I wager the cover is quite appropriate. in case it piques your interest

what is so so glos?

fun party dude punk rock

I like their cover

Cover connections if you squint:

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (RIYL Young Galaxy, Chromatics kinda thing)
http://assets3.subpop.com/assets/images/main/12922.jpg

Sungod - Contackt (RIYL space rock kinda thing)
http://assets.boomkat.com/images/694530/333.jpg

http://www.theaquarian.com/wp-content/uploads//2013/05/05-08-Discs-Small-Black-Limits-of-Desire.jpg

lol wut

those two are great. especially the still corners one. don't think i'd name an album strange pleasures though, unless it is an explicit joy division nod

the small black is like extremely low rent storm thorgerson

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2013/05/Classixx-Hanging-Gardens-608x608.jpg
Classixx - Hanging Gardens

wait, what the...

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000000IY.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V1057207189_.gif

I remembered the TD cover being similar, but yeah...what the...

whoa. wait a second guys...

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/D/DR/DRI/Trashzone/dri-trashzone-20.jpg

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0192/5946/products/tce_steal_the_light_cover_grande.jpeg?1037

omg.

one of the guys in this band is named felix. classic cat jazz band move.

At last, the Graeme Base revival.

animalia!

It's a new band featuring Lol Creme, Lol Coxhill and Lol Tolhurst

kyle hall thing makes me think of that scene in dekalog

was gonna say that looks classic graeme base

NSFW: https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/942468_10200207896575919_1929912803_n.jpg