The best album cover designs showcase bold imagery, artistic typography, and abstract elements to visually represent the music and artist identity.
A new exhibition is putting the 50 best record cover designs of 2022 on show, along with a retrospective celebrating album art that goes back to 1949...
Album artwork has become a lost art. While the convenience of streaming music is something that many of us can't live without, there's something to be said about a self contained physical album that can be enjoyed from beginning to end. The cover's artwork sets the mood before the first...
Steve designed the album to be as cohesive as possible, so that listeners "make a decision to want to keep playing it again". In a world where we consume music as quickly as possible, we can safely
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Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter dropped another reminder in 2022 that he’s one of the best rhymers to ever pick up a microphone. That reminder? A little album called Cheat Codes, a collaborative effort that’d been years in the making starring Brian Joseph Burton (a.k.a. Danger Mouse) ...
Spanning decades, subcultures, and styles here is our list of the best album covers of all time. From provocative, to avant-garde, to iconic album covers.
Her third album expands into spiky garage rock, lavish psych-folk, and misty dance-pop, turning toward romantic love as its primary subject. The sounds are more immediate and broadly appealing than ever, but Cheek hasn’t lost her restless ingenuity: The creature put to rest on its Auto-...
See also: This Day in TechJune 21, 1948: Columbia’s Microgroove LP Makes Albums Sound Good Columbia Records introduced the first successful microgroove long-playing phonographs way back in June 1948. But it took decades before album cover artwork came i
Pet Shop Boys Cover Art – Please “We were creating images that were intentionally un-pop – some imagery around the first album, for instance, was quite bleak,” said Tennant. “It’s mostly black-and-white. We wanted, and still want, to look totally different to everyone else. At th...