There were tons of unimaginative album covers done in 2007, just as there were every year prior to this one, but there were plenty of refreshing concepts this year. My favorites weren't the ones of bands facing in obscure directions with that look in their face like, "how am I going to spend all of this money Universal gives me", but rather those odd, artistic pictures. The ones that make you think about switching careers and just selling album art out of the back of your car... okay, maybe they're not that great, but they are striking to say the least. Here are my favorites in no particular order:
I already feel as though this album has gotten too much attention this year, but the album cover is that of a flirtatious peacock. Colors always win for me, in the case of the bright, matching ones which involve every color possible are brought forth. Jimmy Eat world may have had their worst album to date, but this is undoubtedly their best album cover. If you're from Arizona, this art may make a lot of sense to you. Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate
Although this is very plain and simple, something attracts me to this album. It looks as though it was a story pulled right out of a Hans Christian Anderson book and transposed into a picture. With the moon (or sun depending on how you look at it) being the focal point, the desolate streets seem to tell many stories. Although this album's stories come nowhere close to the ones this picture may or may not be telling you, I still find myself listening to a song or two solely because of this cover.
Explosions has managed to do more that one thing right in their time and the artwork on their latest this year matched their innovative music style just that much more. I can honestly say, that all of their album art is beautifully done. Pull up any of their albums and you can see the album art had a masterful mind put behind it. I particularly enjoyed the painted style in this one; the light cast on the shadows of the waters as a lonely boatsman drifts though the night. The album name really depicts this picture aptly enough..bmp)
I know I wasn't going to give out winners, but this one takes the cake for the "What the hell could this possibly be?" award. When I look at this, I think I'm playing one of those games where the object is magnified beyond human comprehension and eventually stumped into thinking it is only a piece of tin foil. Here's my guess, it's a piece of tin foil. (At closer look, you will also notice a girl in a pink dress with blond hair (bottom right))
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