Derek Riggs’ skeletal creation “Eddie” has provided Iron Maiden with an embarrassment of kick-ass album covers, but the best of the bunch just might be the acrylic art for the metal legends’ second album,Killers. On it, the undead Eddie stands on a shadowy city street at nighttime, hi...
From Taylor Swift's folk surprise to Bob Dylan's best album in 20 years: the 50 Best Albums of 2020
For years, Matmos’ Drew Daniel used his solo project the Soft Pink Truth to join his disparate interests, reimaginingpunk classicsandblack metalas squirrelly glitch techno. His 2020 album of original compositions is a radically different proposition: a 43-minute ambient suite meant to counter fasc...
From Taylor Swift's folk surprise to Bob Dylan's best album in 20 years: the 50 Best Albums of 2020
marbly voice. Crutchfield covers typical singer-songwriter territory like relationship strife and the mistakes of the past—she reportedly wrote the album after getting sober—but rarely succumbs to cliché. On “Lilacs,” she sings, “And the lilacs drank the water/And the lilacs died,” which...
In her Grammy-nominated sophomore album, Bridgers covers everything from an apocalypse in 'I Know the End', to still believing that one day you are going to get that letter from Hogwarts in 'Chinese Satellite' - always with her trademark humour and wry lyricism never faltering throughout the...
The album cover for Public Enemy's "What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?," 2020. Def Jam 27. Hum – "Inlet" When Hum dropped their first album in 22 years, it was a big deal for those who love their blend of hard-edged, expansive, somewhat grungy space-rock. "Inlet" d...
Whether there’s hidden Easter eggs, a controversial political point being made, crazy fonts, stylish design decisions, famous art features, or just a really well-positioned band photo, the best album cover arts catch the eye and make you think. Scroll on for a collection of what we consider...
And, of course, it featured one of the greatest album covers of all time, designed by the legendary Storm Thorgerson. The public agreed: upon release, it stayed in the Billboard charts for an astonishing 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. Profits from it even went on to help fund Monty ...
One of 2024’s most-anticipated arrivals, GloRilla’s debut album more than lived up to fans’ expectations. Prefaced by the rising star’s Ehhthang Ehhthang mixtape, the 15-track Glorious doesn’t miss a beat rhythmically or lyrically as Glo covers a wide swath of situations and emotions...