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Altern 8 - Hypnotic St-8 (1992)
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Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm (1985)
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What a great topic to discuss. A lot of inspiration to find!

I once bought The Amateur View by To Rococo Rot on vinyl just because of the vinyl cover:
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Also this cover of Cry by Cigarettes After Sex is a stunning photography and editing:
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I whish I would have come up with such a great cover for my own music. :D

Feast/Beast by Clark is also a mesmerizing cover. Can't stop to stare at this!
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For Boards Of Canada I can't chose from Twoism, Geogaddi and Campfire Headphase. At Campfire Headphase it's really just the colour I like so much. Geogaddi is the first time I actually enjoyed the combination of red and yellow. A daring combination but it worked out. I also have this Special CD-Book Edition with extended artwork which makes this album even more good-looking.

I scrolled my music library for this and I also have to mention that coverart isn't an easy thing. Just now I noticed how much of it looks sh*t. :D
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NIN's theme of physical/spiritual/digital decay in their album covers has fascinated me as long as I've been a fan. Sometimes I've legitimately forgot some of them don't even have the names on them:

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Clos3r wrote:I scrolled my music library for this and I also have to mention that coverart isn't an easy thing. Just now I noticed how much of it looks sh*t. :D

It's an underrated artform. For the hell of it I once looked up a "top 100 album covers of the past year" and, at the very least, 95% looked boring and uninspiring. I blame the decline of physical media as a contributing factor.
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Funki Porcini - Fast Asleep (Artwork by Kevin Foakes aka DJ Food)

The fact that this was done in 2002 still blows my mind.


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The Black Angels - Death Song (2017)
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Caravan Palace - Chronologic (2019)
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Christine And The Queens - Chaleur Humaine (2014)
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Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (2007)
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Stone cold agree, definitely an under-appreciated art form. I'm glad to see this thread again.

Clos3r wrote:Feast/Beast by Clark is also a mesmerizing cover. Can't stop to stare at this!
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Very dali-esqe!
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My favorite BOC artwork is probably a tie between Geogaddi and MHTRTC

Godflesh - Streetcleaner (1989)
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
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Shellac - Terraform (1998)
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Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994)
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rodox_head wrote:
Clos3r wrote:I scrolled my music library for this and I also have to mention that coverart isn't an easy thing. Just now I noticed how much of it looks sh*t. :D

It's an underrated artform. For the hell of it I once looked up a "top 100 album covers of the past year" and, at the very least, 95% looked boring and uninspiring. I blame the decline of physical media as a contributing factor.


I agree, even if I don't end up releasing my music physically in the future I would be sure to make more visual material for it, since I consider booklets a really important thing when you're experiencing an album.


(I also love NIN's album covers, I'd say Pretty Hate Machine is my favorite from them)
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Blockhead's artwork has never disappointed:

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all go on only toward death.
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I like austere covers with dreary colors:

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The artwork for Stephen Mallinder's upcoming album really caught my eye:

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"Let me hear your war cry!" 8)
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In here is a tragedy, art thou player or audience?
Be as it may, the end doth remain:
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Getting this album some weeks ago made me realize how much I love the VHS/Digital visual identity the band had, so here's some of my favorite examples of cover art from the band's releases at that time

The Bends Album
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My Iron Lung EP
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Fake Plastic Trees Single
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High And Dry/Planet Telex Single
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Street Spirit (Fade Out) Single
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The members of Genesis were always good with album art. ('cept Mr. Collins who slapped his mug on every one. :lol: )

Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (1976)
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Peter Gabriel - Us (1992)
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Simian - Chemistry is what we are (2001)
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Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light (2008)
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Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner (1975)
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I really admire the effort and detail that went into the cover for Reggie and The Full Effect's second album:
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Be as it may, the end doth remain:
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Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation (1968)
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Tindersticks - Distractions (2020) (kaleidoscopic design, slightly unnerving.)
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Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
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Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygène 3 (2016)
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Yello - Toy (2016)
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The Jefferson one is a particular favorite, placing the band in the center of an atom bomb is both foreboding and trippy. :D
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It kinda looks like a frame from an early Cronenberg movie like Scanners or something -- one of my faves. Album sound is hi-fi af

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John Grant has very specific and bizarrely brilliant album artwork.

Pale Green Ghosts (2013)
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Grey Tickles, Black Pressure (2015)
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Love Is Magic (2018)
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Boy From Michigan (2021)
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SiLC - Platina (1999)
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SiLC - Chikyugi (1999)
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In here is a tragedy, art thou player or audience?
Be as it may, the end doth remain:
all go on only toward death.
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There is nothing which cannot become a puppet of fate
or an onlooker, peering into the cage.

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I love all loscil's album covers. His ambient music, artwork & photography blends really well.

Some fine examples:
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A while back I made a collage of 16 of his albums for a loscil introduction playlist:
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Any cover that's primarily green and/or is a close up of foliage or plants

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Skee Mask - Pool

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Gas - Pop
(it almost feels like cheating to post Gas' artwork but he has some of the best...)

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Gas - Rausch

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Gas - Der Lange Marsch

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Skee Mask - A

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Gas - Oktember

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Four Tet - Parallel
(this one's mainly green because of a solid colour overlay over some trees but it's still cool artwork)

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C418 - Minecraft, Volume Alpha
(cheeky submission but it technically is a close-up of green plants. The grass just happen to be heavily pixelated... :lol:)

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(BONUS) Chon - Grow

(i like green :D)
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