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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