Noteworthy album covers of 2015

http://cdn.discogs.com/mbdsU58NVlo7OR9JZnd7kz1x3zk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-7057180-1432695714-1927.jpeg.jpg
This one, Antoni Maiovvi & Umberto ‎– Law Unit

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0965700161_10.jpg

Foodman - COULDWORK

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a4050077356_10.jpg

Gurun Gurun - Kon B

Think I might have posted that one upthread. Nice record too btw

aha sorry for 2xposting, should have checked. Just discovered it myself.

The Black Ryder - The Door Behind The Door

http://popstache.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Black-Ryder-The-Door-Behind-The-Door.jpg

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

I really like that Black Ryder cover. Kind of Twin Peaksy.

CnN looks like a 70s jazz record where the cover tricks you into the thinking the music is outre but it ends up being like trad standards when you put it on and you're a bit let down.

― andrew m., Thursday, July 23, 2015 5:28 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha

Posting this here for album cover geeks, if it hasn't shown up elsewhere:

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/29/427427711/first-watch-kalle-mattson-avalanche

I enjoyed this article: http://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/album-art/

Very cool. I've always wanted that job (cover design), but in 2015 it's easier just to grab some design interns for the summer and have them dick around in photoshop for 8 minutes to create this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91NIOKNtQoL._SX522_.jpg

http://i58.tinypic.com/2iswkr4.jpg
(Michael Vallera - Distance)

CnN cover apparently based on this from 1974

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000004964545-5unugc-original.jpg

^saw this in a record store over the weekend, was just coming here to post!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bp/monastic-living.jpg

wow cant say why but i love that one

did they draw it on the bus on the way to the label meeting?

don't care for the music but that's a lovely cover

http://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/field/image/Jaga-Jazzist-Starfire-600x600.jpg

The gradient on the gold was a poor last minute decision, but otherwise nice.

The reviews editor of The Wire posted this one on Twitter this morning...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41TLEy6V7HL.jpg

scraping the bottom of the ugly barrel:

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/miscellaneous/july15/world-500x500.jpg

http://www.resident-music.com/image/cache/data/warner/july15/duran-500x500.jpg

The DD one looks like a Trapper Keeper with stickers on it.

The DD one looks like:

http://i0.wp.com/twinstickgaming.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/homers-web-page.png

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fka.jpg

aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHH

yeah, liking the ep but not feeling the FKA Escher image

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/as/deerhunter-fading-frontier.jpg
Deerhunter - Fading Frontier

http://www.vfeditions.com/media/catalog/product/127a773a2dd51a1f02723597d73d41c2.gif

ltd edition bo ningen record with black hair dye headbanged onto the sleeves

I like it. Feel bad for their necks though.

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fka.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91t2bmSsd0L._SL1500_.jpg

don't really know what this is but a cover like that makes me want to buy it on sight:

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2138872518_10.jpg

Glassine - No Stairway

No Stairway is an album comprised solely of manipulated field recordings taken from a Guitar Center... Danny Greenwald, working under the name Glassine, took samples from a couple of stores and produced a glimmering, soothing album from the results.

jjjusten's christmas present right there

Apparently there is another project using the exact same concept, maybe the cover art is better.

love the twigs cover

what is that on her shoulder though

hand #2

http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/08/12223305/helentheoriginalfaces_PromoImage-560x560.jpg

what is that on her shoulder though

It's her other hand.

Would have preferred if she went all Chris Cunningham.

http://keef.tv/images/uploads/Cunningham_Jones.jpg

http://siltbreezerecords.com/shop/sarah-mary-chadwick-9-classic-tracks-lp

Can't get the direct image link on my phone, sorry. Just go on there.

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/524e1b1ae4b0db2f799d65d7/524e1c5be4b075e4d3b8cda5/554a54b4e4b0cb414e996c72/1430934708749/6550301167110_main.jpg?format=500w

the Chromatics album from the first reply still doesn't have a release date, smdh

No Stairway is an album comprised solely of manipulated field recordings taken from a Guitar Center... Danny Greenwald, working under the name Glassine, took samples from a couple of stores and produced a glimmering, soothing album from the results.

― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, August 20, 2015 7:52 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OMG I had a similar idea for a record, wish I posted it to "terrible ideas" to document it

I had sim idea but involving sampling bad bands doing soundcheck at the local place and then making something better out of it all.

the Chromatics album from the first reply still doesn't have a release date, smdh

For real. When it was first announced, it was supposed to be February 2015.

I had thought Simonetti, that thief asshole, was the reason they could be flaky as a label, but it seems like it might have been both of 'em!

knowing them it'll hit Soundcloud in its entirety about a year after it got a tracklist...so, December sometime?

Australian music website, Happy:

Are we late to the mid-year list party? Screw it, here are our Top 10 album covers of the year so far.
http://hhhhappy.com/are-we-late-to-the-mid-year-list-party-screw-it-here-are-our-top-10-album-covers-of-the-year-so-far/

we thought we’d look over our shoulders at 2015 and throw in our two cents for the best Aussie album covers of the year so far.