Noteworthy album covers of 2014

i like the way the shonky-looking hangars behind him undercut the glamour. could've been a swanky departure lounge, could've been palm trees, but no, it's mundane industrial-shed, metal-box ugliness instead

― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 24 July 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link

I don't know, jumping out of your Benz and hopping into your private jet is pretty glamorous.

― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link

o sure, but the surroundings have all the appeal of a b&q car park (tatty burger van just out of shot)

― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3662428547_10.jpg

― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Monday, 4 August 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/0003347288_10.jpg

― Mordy, Monday, 4 August 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link

what's that?

― alpine static, Monday, 4 August 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link

looks like a tree of some sort

― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 4 August 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link

I think it's an album cover.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 4 August 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link

good work, gents

― alpine static, Monday, 4 August 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link

Michiru Aoyama - 暖かな季節 (Warm Season)

― Mordy, Monday, 4 August 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link

Oh cool, I have what I think was his last album (The Sound Is Shining) and that was terrific

― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 4 August 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/couldyoudefine/RELEASE-apachedropout-heavywindow_zps743a7f48.jpg

― dronestreet, Monday, 4 August 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link

https://cdn1.lockerdome.com/uploads/39ceca213118d304d5cc59c85c856f42071155b2dc802d9b8ca212c46862fb0f_large

― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i know i know, it's the vines, but this is terrible in every possible way:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Bs5N1Zr%2BL._SY300_.jpg

― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link

Looks like a shampoo label from the 70s.

― il balletto da bronx, yo (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 30 August 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link

Apparantly it's a double album with 24 songs on it. It's 54 min long all in all.

― Frederik B, Saturday, 30 August 2014 03:14 (nine years ago) link

Seriously? Their label's letting them do that?

― il balletto da bronx, yo (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 30 August 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link

It's released on their own label, Wicked Nature Music.

― Frederik B, Saturday, 30 August 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link

what's the Waka Flocka one?

― alpine static, Saturday, 30 August 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link

i guess i am assuming it's not a WFF album

― alpine static, Saturday, 30 August 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link

Oh hell, that Low Country Kingdom album art is dreadful and offensive and stupid all together.

― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 30 August 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link

http://wp-images.emusic.com/assets/2014/09/TRR242_MONO_HI-RES.jpg

New Mono album. Gorgeous imho.

― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link

(I have images off, has anyone posted the FKA twigs cover?)

― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link

And the accompanying second Mono cover (there's two new albums):

http://wp-images.emusic.com/assets/2014/09/TRR243_MONO_HI-RES.jpg

― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link

those are beautiful! any idea who did them?

― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link

From the Temporary Residence website:

Each album is in its own heavy board stock inner sleeve w/ gloss varnish, housed in a custom die-cut matte varnished gatefold jacket featuring the full 12x24-inch cover artwork by world-renowned artist, Pat Perry

― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link

thanks LBI - pat perry very well worth a GIS

― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link

No problem, and you are right, just saw that myself!

― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link

those Monos are lovely

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 06:51 (nine years ago) link

^^ otm

Seriously? Their label's letting them do that?

lol they got dropped by EMI seven years ago: their next album was released by their management, they self-funded the one after and sold it to Sony in Australia only, and crowdfunded this one despite their current management having an overall deal with Warners.

― boney tassel (sic), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 07:20 (nine years ago) link

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91H-x1%2BxUCL._SL1500_.jpg

great cover, great compilation if you like KPM styled library music.

― mark e, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link

YOB
http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Yob-Clearing-The-Path-To-Ascend-Cover.jpg

― anonanon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81h+tJf1shL._SL1500_.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 5 September 2014 07:44 (nine years ago) link

glad someone posted YOB, i want that hanging in my house

― alpine static, Friday, 5 September 2014 07:47 (nine years ago) link

http://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/HOOKWORMS-320x320.jpg

hookworms "the hum"