Noteworthy album covers of 2014

http://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/images/hires_products/gram1403.jpg

I'd think I'd be bored of the Sacred Bones template by now but I really love it.

http://cdn2.thelineofbestfit.com/images/made/images/remote/http_cdn2.thelineofbestfit.com/media/2014/HowToDressWell-WhatIsThisHeart_535_535_c1.jpghttp://dis.resized.images.s3.amazonaws.com/540x540/98067.jpeg

That Kindess cover is pretty much the same as the Yumi Zouma one which I actually love. This one doesn't disgust me but I'll get bored pretty soon if this portrait cover becomes a bigger trend by the end of the year.

That said, FKA Twigs puts all the other portrait covers this year to shame and I doubt I'll see one I like better by the end of it.

https://twitter.com/marathonpacks/status/521080090566746112

^ portrait cover trend

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/storage/music-news-images/M_NeilDiamondMelodyRoad630_090914.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1410282161595

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/e7/e7/e5/e7e7e5ce26af675be7ee00c661d05888.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/p526x296/1959348_10152382195866581_5047232390811054828_n.jpg?oh=5d16e0b4e0d3a3d394ccb5d59561f0b9&oe=54BB50A7&__gda__=1422186411_8436c61bce513b16da83c4f32931583b
wizard rifle - here in the deadlights

Cool cover. Shame about the band name.

http://i57.tinypic.com/ve51ld.jpg

Juçara Marçal - Encarnado

(a free download of skronky/noisy Vanguarda Paulista)

http://i57.tinypic.com/ve51ld.jpg

reminds of the torch of the mystics artwork
,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Sun_City_Girls_Torch_of_the_Mystics.jpg
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3365/4641201644_03f34c9e8d.jpg

http://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/images_uploads_album_1500x1500.jpg

I'm into it.

I will fuck this up somehow

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0266143769_10.jpg

I didn't!

Sort of naff but kind of cool cover for Spectral Lore - III

egrettable

how many stoner/doom bands are kicking themselves at getting out-stoner/doomed by the Budos Band.

i assume that's an Arik Roper drawing? looks like it, though I'm sure there are plenty w/ the same style.

Sort of naff but kind of cool cover for Spectral Lore - III

That's great, actually, but I love when naff meets cool uptown at the Android's Dungeon.

Hey Moka, perhaps you can still help, which one is the album on the right of Hapiness is by Taking Back Sunday?

Wizard Rifle sounds like a 4Chan handle for an open carry activist.

xxxpost: I read that it's by their drummer.

http://www.rap-up.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/k-michelle-awbah-cover.jpg

(k. michelle - anybody wanna buy a heart?)

that Budos Band cover is ridiculously similar to Death Is This Communion by High On Fire

good artwork on doom metal albums are a dime a dozen it seems. can't tell whether i'm bored of them or if they still pay off for me

K. Michelle title reminds me too much of

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608028358545442203&pid=15.1&P=0

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mJZRIUvoL._SX300_.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2KHvlxIAAAW00t.jpg

Love all of this except the hideously fonted and coloured title.

^^ was abt this one:

http://images.fashionnstyle.com/data/images/full/50929/marina-and-the-diamonds.jpg

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

haha waht

cover is about as good as the album imo

otm

i don't think we've seen this piece of hot garbage in itt:

http://images.modlife.com.s3.amazonaws.com/custom/foofighters/assets/img/splash/sonichighways.jpg

and that city was called... America

Odd, when I was in Washington a couple of years ago, that obelisk momument didn't look quite that big...

This looks like what happens after the oceans rise and a massive engineering project put a little bit of every city on the only patch of dry soil left.

Why are there so many number eights all over everything?

Rock music is infinite!

it's their eighth album. and they are cornballs who must clobber us over the head with everything. (i say that as a Grohl fan.)

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0192/7084/products/UW013CD_CU_grande.jpg

http://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-what-i-do-volume-three

the Lescalleet sorta recalls mid-late period BPB with the font/photo. good, clean look

Did we get Gwen Stefani on here yet?

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2014/11/gwen-sparkthefire.png

http://i.imgur.com/X0gWYAP.jpg

"Fun ft. Chris Brown"

I reject this one just on its face. There is NO WAY you can have fun with Chris Brown.

Also, I love there's a song called "Day Drinking" on the same album that features a song from an animated children's movie.

Is this a straight-up After Dark rip or was the After Dark cover based on something else?

http://bellaunion.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Unknown-11.png

I think the After Dark cover was definitely mimicking an aesthetic, but was original art.

http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/358301005_640.jpg?

http://christpunchers.tumblr.com/image/17317523211