Artwork can’t make or break an album, but when the visuals match the mood of the music, cover art can truly take the experience to the next level. This new music Friday (May 29) we’re looking at the latest releases and giving a salute to the standout cover art of the week, whic...
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...
Artwork by Barbarian Flower for Stealing Sheep by Wow Machine Even though most of us don't buy vinyl anymore, record cover art remains a vital part of music marketing and, indeed, the music fan's experience. Whether it's having Graham Norton hold up a physical album cover on TV or seein...
Once reliably a square foot in size, album cover artwork now has to make an impact at every scale from LPs down to postage-stamp-sized iPod screens, even while it establishes an artist's visual identity with a single image. Here are some of...
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
“Mosquito,” which sounds like a lost All Saints track. Elsewhere, she sings about infatuation on the zippy, sugar-dusted “Capable of You,” and tackles parasocial relationships and infatuation on the strummy, guitar-driven “True Romance.” The (gorgeous) album artwork may feature a white...
album covers that boasted a painting for its artwork: a vivid and almost garish portrait of the blues maven’s face etched by David Stone Martin, a prolific illustrator of album covers in the 50s and 60s. By using a painting rather than a photograph, the artwork underlined Broonzy’s ...
A stunning piece of visual trickery for The Black Keys. The Black Keys This really is a superior design example for an album cover. It is simultaneously simple and fascinatingly complex. Sometimes the best cover art is also the most uncomplicated. Just follow the pink and blue lines and lose...
tapping Q-Tip to handle executive production duties. Despite its radiant album artwork, it isn’t early-career-levels of sonic psychedelia, but it makes up for any lost eccentricity with career-best, face-twisting one-liners so stellar and goofy (“I ignore a whore like an email from Linke...
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