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Twenty Stand Out Album Covers From The Last Ten Years
Favourite album cover lists pop up frequently around the web and they invariably include the likes of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and many bands from the 60’s and 70’s. And rightly so, the cover art was beautiful.
The last time I was in HMV I had a walk around looking at the cover designs and so many modern albums feature just the airbrushed face of the star or starlet, which I find quite boring really. I wanted to compile a list of modern album covers that I found visually appealing. This is purely personal and has nothing to do with the music (some of these bands I’ve never even heard their albums) – just the cover design. The main criteria for selection here, is that cover made me look twice or stop to look closer. Some covers have nice photography, some have nice scribbly images, some have nice painting and some are just clever. They have all been released within the last 10 years and most of them are fairly mainstream. I’d love to get your comments and hear which recent album cover art you found interesting.
So, in no particular order;
Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
Kate Nash – Made of Bricks
Bjork – Volta
Homogenic – Bjork
The Cranberries – Bury the hatchet
The Strokes – Is this it (There are two completely different covers for this album – the blue and yellow one for the US and the more ahem, risqué one for the rest of the world)
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
Franz Ferdinand – You could have it so much better
Gorillaz – Demon Days
Air – Pocket Symphony
Robbie Williams – Sing When You’re Winning
The Flaming Lips – Yoshima Battles The Pink Robots
Glen Phillips – Abulum
Moby – Play
Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist (this is available in red and purple too)
Kanye West – Late Registration
Scissor Sisters – Ta Dah!
Blur – Best Of
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My favorite is the Gorillaz, because I’m a big fan of Jamie Hewlett. But I also love Kanye West’s and The White Stripes. And Franz Ferdinand’s cover. It’s so simple, but so effective and memorable.
Hi Sera, I love the White Stripes too. All of their covers are great.
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Eww, the blur one is in there. I am also a fan of the gorillaz one, the kanye west one and the moby one
Cool list.
It looks to me like you just compiled a list of your favorite albums. Most of these are a bit on the generic side as far as the cover art is concerned. Certainly nothing too original. There are a few exceptions, but you may need to look outside of the popular bands that it’s currently cool to listen to for truly unique and inspiring cover art. That’s my 2% of a near worthless American dollar.