Would Sgt. Pepper's be exactly the same without Peter Blake's cover ? At a time when full-length records do not mean much any longer and album covers even less, I found interesting to make a website on sleeve design. Long before videos, record covers were the visual embodiment of music, a way to put images on sound. I remember having spent hours as a teenager detailing the cover of records while listening to them. Later on, I realised that some of them had things in common in their design, revealing either a mere sign of the times or a more deliberate connection. Some records even obviously copied famous sleeves, as a tribute or as a mockery. Here is a collection of record covers I came across, which share some common visual features.
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Beady Eye
BE (2013) |
Brother Tunes
This Woman (2014) |
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Giant Sand Center of the Universe (1992) |
Steve Earle El Corazón (1997) |
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Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue (2009) |
Bike for Three More Heart than Brains (2009) |
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The Veils Sun Gangs (2009) |
Dan Berglund Tonbruket (2010) |
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The Kooks Listen (2014) |
Allen Stone Radius (2015) |
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The Soup Dragons
Hydrophonic (1994) |
Spiritualized
Pure Phase (1995) |
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Santogold
Santogold (2008) |
MØ
Don't Wanna Dance (2014) |
