Noteworthy album covers of 2013

http://www.terrorizer.com/terrorizerwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Baroness-Live-At-Maida-Vale.jpg

really like this, much more so than your garden variety John Baizley artwork at this point really

http://testpressing.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BIS006_COVER_500x500.jpg

^ i don't know what you would call that style, but i can't stop oogling this cover

some sort of techy colouring-book mysticism

I like that Secret Circuit cover (kinda reminds me of 60's/70's Jack Kirby comics), but that font lets it down.

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/zola_jesus_versions-500x500.jpg

really dig this, don't really care if very little effort went into it

Little effort, you say? They made the text all diagonal!

lol

tbh that probably looks good when lp-sized.

I like that Secret Circuit cover (kinda reminds me of 60's/70's Jack Kirby comics), but that font lets it down.

Does the mismatched alignment between top and bottom really bother anybody else? I mean, I know "galactics" is slightly longer than "tactile" but that still looks sloppy. Love the colors, though; it reminds me a bit of Stanislaw Lem book covers:

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c2436.jpg
http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347619972l/953489.jpg
http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/The-Futurological-Congress-by-Stanislaw-Lem.jpg

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/5b9c1151269b2b175b11323ad17d3c0c.jpg

Ha, that looks like something on GRP from 1981 that would've littered cut-out bins for the better part of the decade.

for sure, their new song is a total Steely Dan rip so...

http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/23182/1303110/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-12%20at%2011.38.11%20AM_640.png
i hate this cover, but the new song is very cool, and a nwe direction from previous Arp stuff

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a2814346969_10.jpg
matchess - seraphastra

http://www.e20romagna.it/public/articoli/Cover_300dpi.jpg
simona gretchen - post krieg

http://revolutionblues.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/artworks-000044103563-jftnlr-original.jpg
miles - faint hearted

http://www.urb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ACYBLPx1.jpg
yatha bhuta jazz combo - s/t

The artwork on Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo is a painting from Mati Klarwein titled “Conceptual Tree”, a fitting touch to the album that was secured from Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo and Mati Klarwein’s son meeting at a exhibit for his fathers works. His work graces the covers of such classics as Earth, Wind & Fire’ Last Days In Time, Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew and Santana’s Abraxas and now you can add Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo to that list.

That Miles one irritates me. Feeling the Matchess.

the matches one is great. it reminds me of like an underwater biosphere where people live after the earth has become uninhabitable. might buy the album just to own the cover.

Yeah the Matchless one is very good. Must be loads of record covers with that New Atlantis/Captain Nemo/Jar Jar Binks concept on them (e.g. Eternal Tapestry album from last year, though that was clearly in space), but that one is done in a really neat way, kind of a hodge-podge of styles: 50's architectural magazine feature in the foreground, stuff in the background is almost a chintzy Christmas card alpine village, but the perspective and layout is totally Japanese landscape painting, and then that roof is very Eurostar terminal at St Pancras. What does it sound like?

Miles one is *very* similar to the last Junior Boys album whatever the heck that was called, I still like it though. Good record too, more of a focussed and dance-oriented thing than the Demdike stuff, still plenty of weirdness though (it's Miles Whittaker for anyone that was wondering).

This was the Junior Boys cover I meant:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TPhPtIAjL.jpg

which is this thing of course

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/15/article-0-08B8A60F000005DC-897_634x452.jpg

Yeah the Matchless one is very good. Must be loads of record covers with that New Atlantis/Captain Nemo/Jar Jar Binks concept on them (e.g. Eternal Tapestry album from last year, though that was clearly in space), but that one is done in a really neat way, kind of a hodge-podge of styles: 50's architectural magazine feature in the foreground, stuff in the background is almost a chintzy Christmas card alpine village, but the perspective and layout is totally Japanese landscape painting, and then that roof is very Eurostar terminal at St Pancras. What does it sound like?

Matchess one is just actual 1970s NASA concept art.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/01/nasas-groovy-concept-art-orbiting-cities-future/1085/

I mean, that doesn't make me like it less. Just wanted to point out where they got it.

Oh wow, would you look at those things! thanks for the link!

Number None, remind where that building is again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_pavilion_at_Expo_2010

ahhh, thanks!

Aww, darn.

Satanic Rockers - 'Fu Kung', nsfw unless your job is determining the greatest album art of all time

haven't heard it but there's no way their music does that cover justice....

that german soldier has a very long neck

Yeah the Matchless one is very good. Must be loads of record covers with that New Atlantis/Captain Nemo/Jar Jar Binks concept on them (e.g. Eternal Tapestry album from last year, though that was clearly in space), but that one is done in a really neat way, kind of a hodge-podge of styles: 50's architectural magazine feature in the foreground, stuff in the background is almost a chintzy Christmas card alpine village, but the perspective and layout is totally Japanese landscape painting, and then that roof is very Eurostar terminal at St Pancras. What does it sound like?

dubby lo-fi indie electronics in the vein of peaking lights, dean blunt + inga copeland or laurel halo maybe. it's a fine little record, nothing spectacular but well worth a try.

http://wm.mynv.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/001l82.jpg

Kyary!

https://i3.sndcdn.com/artworks-000048748746-6u3k7p-t500x500.jpg?0c5f27c

so many of these i wanna check out just on the basis of cover

Bit of a Yes rip-off there

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b9QIHeVQL._SX355_.jpg

i hate this cover, but the new song is very cool, and a nwe direction from previous Arp stuff

― mizzell, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 5:08 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so cool!

Mercan Dede one is an insult to Yes, to Photoshop, and to architecture.

Agree. That cover makes me angry.

"From the makers of Myst..."

haha totally

http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/102572596/BIGLOVE047_SS.png

I really like the Mario Paint thing going on here.

SAPP HIRE SLOWS

well, it is the bands last ever album ...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/7313_583561711665107_488128812_n.jpg

haha I knew what that was going to be before I clicked on it

*barf*

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a66d6cee84519b900489dd593a91cca1/tumblr_moll2d3wyu1qaqkvpo1_1280.jpg

if that were a little lower quality it would look like a self-produced debut folk record