Is it a bright and delightful abstract captured moment of Life in Action? Is it the bit of board on the side of the painting where the paint was tested before being applied? Is it a blue dog jumping for a red square frisbee about to be wetly overcome by the purple tide of this cruel, polluted world? Who knows?ĭan Hillier’s latest print release, Spark, is exclusively available here. This is one of those album covers that you’d have for years and never know what it is or why the band chose to make it the cover. Richard James always does a good job buggering up his features in Aphex videos and artwork, ‘Windowlicker’ and ‘Rubber Johnny’ being especially splendid examples, and this is a simple and fun variant that is also a little bit disturbing, more because of what he’s done before than what it is in itself. It doesn’t seem to have an awful lot to do with the music. It’s always a bit of an odd choice to lob some musical notes on an album cover, a bit like when people decide it’s a good idea to write out the dictionary definition of a word they’re seeking to illustrate with a picture. Here comes a lady tip-toeing through a 1980s soft rock album cover in a tutu. The album title hopefully would have tempted someone to use horrific heavy metal artwork for this, though that might have gone against the grain of what old matey boy had in mind when wishing to visually represent the thrust behind his music.Īzealia Banks – ‘Broke With Expensive Taste’ It does the job, and mayhaps enough time has passed since Metallica did this years ago for someone else to have a pop at it. I wonder if this was one of those projects that went right round the houses before the designer decided to just make it black and slip off to the pub.
It makes you wonder what lurks therein whilst also laying out just what it is. The simplicity of the single gold word on black with its pleasing font, lightly festooned as it is with curves and lines that suggest musical notes and brass instruments, straight away looks confident and quirky and serves well as a tidy support for the music. The crafty-ness of it goes pleasingly with the sharp futuristic font. Someone had a simple idea of pissing about with brightly coloured wool and everyday objects and ran with it and the result is fun and weird and doesn’t give the music away. Liars have swung through so many different types of music over the years that you’re never quite sure what they’ll pop out next, and this cover suits that nicely. Where are the psychopathic clowns and nail-headed oafs wheel-barrowing terrified schoolchildren into early graves? Where are the rivers of rancid puke, the shit, the piss? Come on chaps. This looks like it could be an Aerosmith cover, or perhaps Miley Cyrus having a go at being dark. It’s good to see that Slipknot are still ploughing the bloody and spermy fields of the horror-loving youth. Is 1989 when she was born? Those were the days, when album art was made by doing all drawings, using Letraset and sticking things together with glue, or writing some words on a polaroid picture. It definitely looks like it might have come out of 1989, maybe out of a shoebox of memories.
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