It’s been quite a while since I’ve delved into the world of album covers in my ongoing album art lover series, but I was inspired by the sleeve for Sharon Van Etten’s brilliant new album, Tramp (which is now streaming on NPR by the way) to explore the ever-popular face cover. They say 93% of communication is [...]

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As a Digital Communications major who’s dabbled in photography, one of my favorite things to see on an album cover is a really great photograph. I also have always loved the look of high speed photography. Album art featuring high-speed photos are usually pretty far and few between but recently I’ve noticed a few examples [...]

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If you haven’t noticed, the modern vintage / antique look is in right now. Whether it’s Polaroids, found/aged photos, or retro commercial style, the vintage look is forever ingrained in modern culture, and it seems to have especially permeated the indie music scene. One of the most popular methods of achieving this look is the [...]

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One of my best albums I’ve heard so far is Cape Dory, a nautical-obsessed indie pop album by Colorado husband-and-wife duo Tennis. The unique album cover is a near-exact replica of a vintage album cover by Lisa Hartman (the band apparently collects ’70s-’80s female pop artist vinyl just for the cover art). This got me [...]

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“A dog is very easy to break, but cats make you work for their affection. They don’t sell out the way dogs do.” I was thinking about how indie band’s obsession with cats (at least 5 indie albums from this year alone have the domestic felines on the cover) and then I thought about the above quote spoken by Robert De [...]

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This has to be one of the best album release days ever right? It’s pretty amazing to me that three of my top 20 current bands, Broken Social Scene, New Pornographers, and The Hold Steady all have a new albums out today (and The National next week!). Anyway, the album art for The Hold Steady’s Heaven Is [...]

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