With a band name like Yourcodenameis:Milo and an ex TDR designer David Bailey working on your sleeve, you know you’re in for something special. This side project album features collaborations with Maximo Park, Futureheads, Tom Vek, Bloc Party and Get Cape Wear Cape Fly among others. Each track was written and recorded in one day. [...]
It’s funny but this is the Urban Dictionary meaning for sleevage. For those not as learned in the way of womens anatomy, there is cleavage, side-boob and sleevage. The latter is shown above in this sexy cover for Ween’s Chocolate & Cheese album. It’s no wonder this is Ween’s best selling album. It has some [...]
Somebody just told me that this artwork by Rasmus Hägg is little more than three pieces of coloured paper thrown together. That may be the case, but it doesn’t diminish its beauty or its beautiful simplicity. It’s true that pastels have never really appealed to anyone other than interior designers and hair salon owners, but [...]
There is something very satisfying about an object that is tactile and, although this piece of art is not worth touching, the appearance of tactility is rich enough for me to need to reach out and grab the CD. (I imagine if this were hanging on a wall, I would standing way too close to [...]
Everything about the cover photograph by John Berg is peculiar. The first thing that you notice is the seeming lack of balance in the photo. If Dylan were simply flanked by those two other blokes, then it would seem to make sense, but the fact that there is a fourth, and frowning figure, hovering in [...]
A nice and arty cover here for Faker’s debut album Addicted Romantic. Mathematics informed me that the short deadline dictated the illustrative approach as they were called in after the initial commissioned artwork didn’t turn out. I love the blood which hints at the aggression in many of the songs found on the album. Initial [...]
As the debut album for Joy Division it must have been a big decision to go sans text. It’s fortunate Peter Saville had the support of label manager Tony Wilson, featured in 24 Hour Party People, which allowed such great ideas to go ahead. It paid off, it’s minimalist yet still visually interesting. The cover [...]
Mash Design submitted this to us and again I feel I’m out of the loop as I’ve never heard of Wolf & Cub (I love the name). But again that’s the beauty of interesting artwork, it gets noticed. This photographic cover reminds me of those “find the item” games where you get a list of [...]
Yeh yeh, chicks, cars, guns it’s a dissemination of male fantasies…sure..whatever. Cliched hiphopism aside Bill Sienkiewiczs‘ cover art for The RZA as Bobby Digital debut was a sweet deal for any fans of comic art and 70′s/80′s movie posters. The composition is all Indiana Jones/Bond/Star Wars of the late 70′s/early 80′s (Sienkiewicz actually did some [...]
Credited as the first ever rock album to not display the bands name on the cover art (apparently Eric Claptons’ idea) was the self titled Blind Faith (1969). The 60′s Supergroup’s only album featured Bob Seidemanns‘ striking photo of a nude, freckly youngster holding a gleaming, chrome, impressionistic sculpture of a jet (the hood ornament [...]
