Album Art Lover: Blurry
August 15, 2012
For this edition of my ongoing album art lover series (where I discuss album art trends and stuff), I’m focusing on the album covers using blur, an effect I’ve seen pop up more and more this year, from Cloud Nothings to The Antlers to Chromatics. Probably the most iconic blurry album photo is Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde, which was thought to symbolize the dazed and druggy times of the mid-60′s (but was actually because it was freezing cold the day of the photo shoot).
From the 60′ on, blurry and out-of-focus album art continues to be popular aesthetic choice, used to evoke feelings of confusion, intoxication, dizziness or unrest, or it could just be that artists think it looks cool. Whatever the case, below is a mix of 15 albums featuring blurry covers. View the cover art and download an track from each album below, just make sure to take your dramamine first.
MP3 The Cure – In Between Days
MP3 Cloud Nothings – Wasted Days
MP3 Tom Waits – Hell Broke Luce
MP3 The Gloria Record – The Arctic Cat
MP3 James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream
MP3 Avril Lavigne – Complicated
MP3 The Raveonettes – She Owns The Streets
MP3 My Morning Jacket – Heartbreakin Man
MP3 Chromatics – Kill For Love
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More album art lover posts:
Close-Up Faces
High-Speed
Sepia
Look-alikes
Cats
Hands
Circles
Tags: album art, Avril Lavigne, Black Sabbath, Blur, Bob Dylan, Chromatics, Cloud Nothings, James Blake, Moonface, My Morning Jacket, Nada Surf, The Antlers, The Cure, The Gloria Record, The Raveonettes, Tom Waits
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September 6th, 2012 at 5:40 am
I like this cover by an icelandic band. My friend http://www.sigurjon.com took the photo in central park and he didn’t use any filters or photoshop. He just moved the camera up and down very fast.
http://youaintnopicasso.com/images/1860sagan.jpg