Interpol: Our Love To Admire
At first glance the cover looks like an image from National Geographic or a still from an Animal Planet documentary. On closer inspection you see that the animals are in-fact taxidermy, most likely shot in a public museum. The cover and inside imagery are the work of New York photographer Seth Smoot. Most of the images are staged in a dry or cold landscape and depict harsh scenes from the animal world.
Somehow the artwork seems to make sense when listening to the album. I’m sure there was a lot more thought put into the concept other than the fact it looks really cool. Interpol’s traditional black, white and red colour scheme is gone (which could reflect the bands move to a major record label) but a bleak atmosphere is still prevalent.
There is also some beautiful typography provided by David Calderley.
Neilo:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/43615-album-art-cop-interpol-vs-ola-podrida
Interpol used the same artwork as another band as part of their promotional campaign. There’s more info about the artwork in the Pitchfork article. Still a cool cover though.
# 09 Nov 07 at 9:20 pm
James Eland:
Let me clarify.
The Interpol artwork is the same album campaign as “Kosheen” RESIST album, see for yourself.
http://www.kosheen.com/releases/?id=486
Naughty Naughty!! Not Cool at all!!!
# 15 Nov 07 at 2:34 pm
Pamela Fuller:
WoW! Who designed the Kosheen album cover, i remember seeing this a while back?
# 15 Nov 07 at 3:11 pm
Ash:
I don’t think Kosheen’s album (which is still very nice) is the same as the Interpol one. Same type of animal but apart from that totally different?
# 18 Nov 07 at 9:21 am
Simon Clayton:
Has anyone seen all the Kosheen series, its clearly the same concept as well as look and feel.
http://www.kosheen.com/releases/?id=8
http://www.kosheen.com/releases/?id=7
http://www.kosheen.com/releases/?id=487
Get it straight mate its been ripped off!
How Painful!!!
# 19 Nov 07 at 9:14 am
Mike:
Ahh of course, Kosheen. That’s where I’ve seen this done before. It looked eerily familiar.
# 19 Nov 07 at 9:28 am
Ash:
Hey Simon,
after seeing the other releases it does look more familiar. I guess thats the risk designers run into when using common imagery like the natural history museum stuff.
# 19 Nov 07 at 6:12 pm
Thomas Berger:
Guys, guys –– have you seen this!
My very first reaction was “bad kosheen ripoff”.
But then……unbelievable.
This cover is quite simply a toss, and a predictable
reaction to the decline of the importance of album art by the last batch of designers riding this particular gravy train.
Check it out!
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/47174-interpol-kosheen-artwork-more-than-coincidence
# 21 Nov 07 at 3:20 am
Daniel Brown:
Has any one seen this?
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/47174-interpol-kosheen-artwork-more-than-coincidence
# 21 Nov 07 at 3:46 am
Ben Johnson:
As I’m rather, er, cool to Coldplay I wasn’t aware of what was going on with the design
what message is the band sending?
I’ll have to check it out.!
# 21 Nov 07 at 9:57 am
Big John:
i just saw this cover for the first time today and instantly thought of kosheen covers. despite the fact that the coldplay cover is such a blatent rip-off, i would guess Graphic Theropy doesn’t seem to mind. the question is, does Blue Source?
# 21 Nov 07 at 10:00 am
Simon Bond:
I know this is terribly anti design education, but I don’t like this album cover cuz I don’t get it. Its not a great album cover…its Starbucks.
# 21 Nov 07 at 10:03 am
Phil Costin:
By designing a Coldplay album you will be given a portfolio piece that will get you more work whether it’s good work or not.
Im courious what album cover design masters like Peter Saville would say about this one.
# 02 Dec 07 at 3:14 pm
blueflower:
kosheen’s ‘resist’ artwork is fantastic, but their latest lp, ‘damage’ looks even better!
if the landscape / sky pictures on their website are a taste of future single sleeves, then it’s another beautiful set of campaign art…
http://www.kosheen.com/releases/?id=469
# 08 Dec 07 at 2:35 am
Jason:
This David C. fella needs to go out and buy some design books…..
nice cover from kosheen!
# 14 Dec 07 at 8:21 am
Kevin Manner:
Has anyone seen this. Here’s one for the books. Ta!
http://www.juno.co.uk/covers/298137-01-front.htm
http://www.juno.co.uk/covers/298137-01-back.htm
# 12 Feb 08 at 3:43 pm
jeroen:
I don’t care - Our Love To Admire is a great album.
# 12 Mar 08 at 1:21 am
Stan Smith:
WORST COVER EVER. RIPOFF!
# 22 Apr 08 at 4:41 pm
Liv:
Those photos were taken at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The museum has hundreds of taxidermy dioramas set against painted backgrounds in little alcoves. It’s only 12$ to get in, right next to Moore college of art, I highly recommend it.
# 30 Apr 08 at 7:21 am
Base:
Looks like the new Made Out Of Babies album is the next one in the series… Weak!
http://www.madeoutofbabies.com/images/bg_wolves.jpg
http://www.seldonhunt.com/procsim/MOOB1-2.jpg
# 15 May 08 at 9:01 am
Alex:
One of my favourite albums. If you listen to some of the songs, like Pace is the Tricks, the lyrics are interelated to the cover
# 31 Jul 08 at 7:40 am