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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Kylie Minogue X (Tour Edition) (2008) |
Sia We Are Born (2010) |
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Cluster Zuckerzeit (1974) |
Warmduscher Midnight Dipper EP (2019) |
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Carbon Based Lifeforms Twentythree (2011) |
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Carbon Based Lifeforms [VLA] (2011) |
Blackfield IV (2013) |
Stellardrone A Moment of Stillness (2013) |
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Arroway We Are Too Small (2013) |
Bon Jovi Bounce (2002) |
Arthur Russell Corn (2015) |
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Ambiguity of Travel Baikonur (2019) |
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