Album Cover's

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Album Covers

I have done some research into how my album cover should look so I decided to make a collage of similar artists to TRASH (Top Right in the collage).

TRASH

Trash's album titled 'Urban Glow' features an artistic illustration of an urban area with 'TRASH' written in road so it can be distinguished from the buildings. Because I am doing a song by TRASH I will be taking a lot of inspiration from their previous work. The colours used are blues and purples that merge together and form a messy design of a busy city.

The chief convention from this CD cover is its illustrative theme, the cartoon style that creates a doodle-esque aura to the cover. In reference to the song I am doing (Brochures) I could feature an illustration of a holiday place or of a framed picturesque scene. To delve deeper into TRASH's satirical tendencies I could even draw or edit a picturesque utopia-like setting and show its flaws and downfalls. I will have to do further investigation and experimentation into the software required to do this as I am not the best artist.

The Black Keys

The second album cover I have used is 'The Black Keys' album called 'Brothers' that I have analysed in further detail on a previous blog. The Black Keys are a similar genre to TRASH and their simplistic cover and minimalist style could be a heavy influence in my CD cover of TRASH.

Bombay Bicycle Club

An indie-rock group that definitely has a close sound to TRASH's also has a similar style of CD cover with the symbolic illustration of a body opposed to a city. The organs and abstract drawing of a brain and tongue is rather interesting. The illustrative natures of some CD covers could be a definite feature within mine as it is a repetitive aspect.

Athlete

A 2002 alt-rock group that I believe is a more evolved and developed band of TRASH. I was originally going to do an Athlete song for my A2 music video but decided that the songs were too sad and I could have incorrectly portrayed the song and my intentions could have been misconstrued. If I had made a poor music video then it could seem that I am mocking the band and a lot of its themes which I wouldn't intend to do and therefore chose not to. The band's CD cover is a picture of a deconstructed vehicle turned into a chair with a lot of hospital wires interweaved through it that is reference to it's main song featured in the album called 'Wires'.  The machine is the sole focus of the CD cover and once again it is an abstract photo. This one is not a drawing but it is of a similar, uncommon theme that indie groups often do because of their deviance from mainstream music. Most indie-rock bands pride themselves on their differences.

ALT-J

One of the most famous indie-rock groups, ALT-J feature another abstract piece of artwork. The graphic is very nature-like and contemporary with the tone of the cover. The CD cover doesn't include any information such as: Artist Name or Album Name or even Production Company. The Album is actually called 'An Awesome Wave' and the art perfectly encapsulates that of a wave with curved and jagged colours colliding with a wall of blue (potentially the sea). After further investigation the album artwork was actually a multi-layered radar image of the Ganges river delta in Bangladesh. It was acquired from an Earth satellite and overlaid images from different dates of the river. The artwork shows an abundance of colour colliding with variations of background radiation. This is innovative artwork with overlaid satellite images is an interesting idea for an album cover.

Spector
Moth Boys is a 2015 album from the indie-rock band Spector that is probably most like TRASH. The album cover is simply a symmetrical photograph of an abandoned room. From what looks like the remnants of a DJ set the previous night with rubbish scattered on the floor shows the depth of the room completely. The portrait of an empty room once again shows how effective simplicity can be, my CD cover will definitely be a simplistic design with aspects and design of a cartoon illustration combined with a photo similar to Spector's Moth Boys.

Conclusion
The CD cover I will create will be a hybrid of illustrative art, potentially abstract combined with a simple photograph similar to Spector's or Athlete's.