Noteworthy album covers of 2014

that's an infant child, adam

record store day doors compilation (get it?):
http://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_photo/418455676350

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bp/melting-sun.jpg

Quite clearly a Post-Deafheaven cover/titel-combo.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2014/kompakt-cd117.jpg

oh it's based off this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_feucQZtlh7w/TMt9GO7nFPI/AAAAAAAADd8/5KZq9xdmIcw/s400/gonzal_wall_wallyonth_101b.jpg

i feel like that kinda homage is cool for a press photo/magazine shoot but its just stupid as your album cover

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h4GoBcnmL._SS420_.jpg

Les Big Byrd - 'They Worshiped Cats'

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zGizRgM2L._SS420_.jpg

Archie Bronson Outfit - 'Wild Crush'

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a2301055101_10.jpg

feeling this

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140127-white-peace-doves-attacked-birds-rome-vatican-pope/

ah forgot abt that

of the four images there the one they used is possibly the least striking tbh!

hahaha

they layout/design makes me think of valerie and her week of wonders

http://www.dummymag.com/media/uploads/new_music/Grumbling_Fur_Preternaturals_Album_Art.jpeg

new grumbling fur innit

Cool - didn't know there was a new grumbling fur innit. Pretty colours too.

A real 70s vibe for the upcoming New Pornographers:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10426700_10152448142922380_6231963947853595771_n.jpg

And a fun little widget at their site that lets you play with the cover art: http://thenewpornographers.com/

That's a great cover.

new soft pink truth album cover (nsfw):

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-soft-pink-truth-interview-why-do-the-heathen-rage-cover-art

(sorry for vice link but it was the only place i could find it big enough to see the detail)

Okay, that's just awful! I guess it's supposed to be a parody of some sort, but... what's the point?

Okay, now that I look at it a bit closer (I'd love to see a bigger version that wouldn't make me squint), looks like all the participants in it are male. So is it supposed like a queer satire of typical metal covers? But do any actual metal covers look like that? Certainly the art style feels more Crumb than Vallejo.

well Drew explains it quite nicely in the Vice article

If How to Dress Well wasn't already "not my thing," this album cover would turn me off of them/him immediately:

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/20654/homepage_large.bc2dad80.jpg

dreadful.

the band name turns me off above anything else, but yea that cover is terrible

is that Manu Ginobli?

Another solid background + person emoting vaguely while staring off camera cover?

did his assistant burst into his office at an inopportune moment?

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/20654/homepage_large.bc2dad80.jpghttp://www.campidiot.net/dump/photo/twerksgiving.gif

you gotta hear this record, man, it's like R&B but white and sad. check it out
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http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/20654/homepage_large.bc2dad80.jpg

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/20654/homepage_large.bc2dad80.jpghttp://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2014/vhs-head-persistence-of-vision.jpg

VHS head - persistence of vision

Cover connection!

Between that cover and how I feel inside when I see it

http://assets.boomkat.com/images/891042/333.jpg

Liars - Pro Anti Anti

put me down as anti btw

They'll never top the single cover for "It Fit When I Was a Kid", why try now?

Blu 'Good to be Home"
http://www.xxlmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/blu-good-to-be-home.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71WZXcHSAUL._SS420_.jpg

Really like the Blu cover.

Ha - read it as Blur at first and was pretty into it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Brnp7plIQAAC1Hd.jpg

o my

also it looks like there is some thunderpants.jpg action going on at the back end of that thing

I love that; it's a guy who paints monsters into charity shop cheapo paintings. The sort of idea that I guess a lot of ilx0rs would hate, but I think he does it well.

xp lol yeah thunderpants creating a thermo-nuclear arsequake

Another one of his:

http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2013/144/5/1/the_thing_by_the_boats_by_chr15t0ph3l35-d66h9qh.jpg

okay the context helps to see where they're coming from but it still looks kind of crappy imo

second picture is more interesting, monster vs boats creating some tension there

I like it! A cousin to that one Dinosaur Jr. LP cover with the weed tree monster guy

R.E.M - Unplugged. V. Cold wavey
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/02/R.E.M._-_Unplugged_-_The_Complete_1991_and_2001_Sessions.jpg/640px-R.E.M._-_Unplugged_-_The_Complete_1991_and_2001_Sessions.jpg