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.

Volumes






















Black Sabbath

Vol 4 (1972)

Sleep

Vol 2 (1991)

Various

Everything Comes and Goes (2005)

Forgotten Tomb

Vol 5, 1999-2009 (2010)

Various

Heavy Nuggets Vol 2 (15 Hard Rock Gems

from The British Underground) (2013)

Charles Bradley

Changes (2016)

Jason Lescalleet

This is What I Do Vol.4 (2014)

Sitting behind the keys








The War On Drugs

A Deeper Understanding (2017)

Pablo Dylan

The Finest Somersault (2019)