Noteworthy album covers of 2014

Never realized until now how many of their post-Waters releases feature a horizon line on the cover.

Haha Marcos <3

C'mon, it looks like the cover of a children's bible. Lill babby Jesus rowing o'er the clouds.

a creaky old punt - maybe it's a reference to roger waters

lol @ floyd

feel like I saw that as an illustration in one of the Narnia books

http://i.imgur.com/PGvT5mEl.jpg

Oh my god that Pink Floyd cover.

This Odawas cover... I feel like I've seen more or less this same thing fifty times.

Paglaira cover I totally like, though!

It gets better (Floyd cover):

Responding via email, Eldin described the inspiration behind his design: “Thinking about life and nature and what is beyond the world of charming factors we have never seen is enough to create millions of different amazing feelings.”

“First, I draw a sketch for what is in my mind, then I start to simulate the sketch and the idea with real images, and that’s called photo manipulation.”

I just heard Aubrey Powell Pinks long time "style director" describe choosing that cover like he'd found an uncovered Da Vinci

Boat needs a tiger in it.

i suppose there are a few similarities between it and the cover of atom heart mother - lack of text, a dreamy pastoral sort of scene, horizon bisecting the image... i reckon if you superimposed the two and shifted AHM slightly to the right, it would look just like the guy in the boat was sticking his paddle up the cow's bumhole - surely a great metaphor for the new record?

The Floyd one is off the scale gross.

the search for cuddlestein mountain

millions of different amazing feelings

http://www.umnet.com/pic/diy/screensaver/1/Dancing-Panda-12801.gif

One of my fave albums of the year also has a p rad cover imo:

http://assets.noisey.com/content-images/contentimage/31422/joyce-manor-cover.jpg

http://www.antighostmoonray.com/wp-content/uploads/UNFLESH-Final-800-JPG-590x590.jpg

Gazelle Twin - Unflesh

The Francis Bacon homage works rather well with about half of the tracks.

http://cdn.acfrg.com/i/400_400_fit_ffffff__png/ACfrG/productpics_fullsize/2/288831-emp.jpg
Onkel Tom - H.E.L.D.
(aka Sodom's Tom Angelripper side project)

pink floyd cover connection:
http://i.imgur.com/tyJchbg.png

Dream Theater cover makes the Pink Floyd look like an instant classic

also, did Tobacco do the Gazelle Twin cover? if not that's a pretty blatant take on his thang, innit?

neo-prog album covers are the best

some searching along this train of thought led me to discover that wishbone ash is still releasing new records in 2014

http://nowagainrecords.com/up/MVPCover.jpeg

loving the orlando julius + the heliocentrics collaboration that's just come out, so this set with melvin is very much top of my list of albums i am looking forward to.

i'm not mad at that pink floyd cover

like if anyone can get away with that, it's Pink Floyd

http://cdn.albumoftheyear.org/album/2014/17720-wonder-where-we-land.jpg

sbtrkt - wonder where we land

No! No more mysterious hands!

Also sick of that New Dorp, New York song already. Sounds like shitty David Essex meets shitty Suicide in a shitty remix by some shithead.

So, this is what the new U2 cover looks like...

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/56872/e25d915f.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/054d29543dd2f95f1394721c422d9e09/tumblr_inline_nbv13qQkBt1rfy1yb.jpg

Yelle - Complètement Fou

http://www.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sinoia-caves-beyond-good-and-evil.jpg
Sinoia Caves - Beyond the Black Rainbow (soundtrack). Cover is a still from the film.

I just realized last weekend that a frozen yogurt place near me has those exact same chairs, only green.

THIS ENDS THE RIVETING "FROZEN YOGURT CHAIRS" STORY

How dystopian is their froyo on a scale from 1 to 10.

i was just about to comment that my university's social spaces have the same chairs. this album speaks to us all on many levels

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61elpp0I7bL._SS420_.jpg

yeah this is ridiculous

http://acloserlisten.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/split.jpg?w=600

Thomas Carnacki / Vulcanus 68 ~ Split LP

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

That title is pretty accurate: notice how is face is Photoshopped but his arms are not?

Mangarth

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/471/MI0002471828.jpg http://image.pollstar.com/WeblogFiles/pollstar/1410030315309470670_v1.jpg

Lookin' pretty tough, dad.

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/andy-stott-cover_Image.jpg

Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers LP

The froyo chairs are Pantone chairs, they're a design classic.

Panton -- Pantone is the color company.

http://i.imgur.com/2ZZ1zBC.jpg

Riff Raff - Neon Icon

Neon must be in this year:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HfH8Qm8%2BL._SL1500_.jpg

(Stars - No One is Lost)

why are elizabeth shepherd's antlers on sideways? that bugs me

the Carnacki cover is great, it's a drawing by the irr.app.ext guy, don't often see him do color

Also, keep reading the Garth Brooks things as . . .

MANGARTH

which sounds like a black metal band.

There's been some great album covers this year. Here's a compilation of some of my favorites, several of these have been mentioned already. If you don't identify a cover and want some more info just ask.

http://i.imgur.com/b6Oc4Gx.jpg

If reissues count I think the Adore reissue looks great and I like it even more than the original one.

http://www.crestfallen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/smashing_pumpkins_adore.jpg

Mangarth

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