i am looking at Monolake, Gravity and Sutekh, periods make sense album
covers. Minimalism in all its glory. Fucking rad. Sutekh cover is green on
one side and orange on the other, soothing and Rothko-esque. mmmmmm.
quoted 62 lines From: Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com>
>From: Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] album art looking like the music sounds
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:08:16 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a recent
>increase of albums where the album art seems to
>accurately visually reflect the "sound" of the music
>contained within, in one way or another?
>
>For example, I just got my copy of Colingib's "Special
>Rumble" [thanks, kracfive!], and I can't help noticing
>that, to me, the cover (grassy, mossy, entangled
>rotting-looking green w/old wood & rusty metal +
>soothing expanse of white) pretty much seems to be
>what the music sounds like.
>
>Other examples, for me, would be:
>
>Lipswitch (R. Devine) - excellent cover art for the
>album. Looks like it sounds.
>
>Muddlin Gear (J. Lidell) - again, the chopped up
>new-orleans-looking black-and-white cover is just what
>it sounds like to me.
>
>anything by Boards of Canada - obvious.
>
>Slow Motion Process (Gimmik) - crystal, etherial,
>although the art is more random than the music, it
>still works.
>
>Confield (ae) - um, yeah.
>
>Aurora (merck comp) - I just think the close-up and
>smoothness of the car works somehow.
>
>OK, so that's not a lot of examples, but they're what
>I'm thinking of at the moment. And I know album art
>can be a lot of different things - commentary,
>juxtaposition, whatever. I'm not here to put anything
>down, just commenting on how cool it is sometimes when
>the album art seems so closely connected to the sound
>of the music, like if the music were a painting or a
>drawing or a photograph, this is what it would look
>like...
>
>Comments? Flames? Ignoring?
>
>-Lord High Damek,
> Ambassador of Love
>
>
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