1 November 2025
Artwork of expanded edition of Chromakopia+
Rap phenomena TYLER, THE CREATOR released an expanded edition – with
a scary Halloween-esque cover (above) – of his 8th LP CHROMAKOPIA.
There’s one new song on named MOTHER. Vintage T,TC.
9 October 2024
This is the cover of an upcoming album by long-time collaborators and
songsmith experts ELVIS COSTELLO (70) and T BONE BURNETT (76).
It’s a 20-song concept LP about imaginary brothers Henry and Howard
Coward, a trans-Atlantic pair of con men who may or may not be blood
relatives. The album drops on 22 November. More info here.
Hear smooth story-telling taster named Always here.
Three years ago an alternate version of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND‘s 4th LP Loaded featuring demos, out-takes and alt mixes of the songs, came out. A new front and back cover was designed. Quite funny.
FRONT
BACK
12 July 2023
Band: THE HUMAN LEAGUE
Album: REPRODUCTION – debut
Released: October 1979
AllMusic said: “The trio of Ian Craig Marsh, Martyn Ware, and Philip Oakey all handled
vocals and synthesizers to create a set of grim, rigid tracks that revealed a greater lack
of humanity than even Kraftwerk. It’s a surprise that the Human League hit the British charts at all (with the single “Empire State Human”), since this could well be the most detached synth pop record ever released.” Score: 3/5.
Single
Artwork: The cover shows the feet of a man and two women seemingly standing above a number of naked babies. This was at the instruction of the band, but band member Martyn Ware described how the band’s brief was misinterpreted by the record company’s art department.
“We said we wanted an image of a glass dancefloor in a discotheque which people were dancing on and beneath this, a lit room full of babies. It was meant to look like a still from a film – like some kind of dystopian vision of the future – but it just looks like they’re treading on babies. We were quite upset but at that time, it was too late to change it.”
Album
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Back sleeve
THE HUMAN LEAGUE: Bio – Discography – Instagram
9 May 2023
Band: AEROSMITH
Album: GET A GRIP – their 11th
Released: 8 May 1993, 30 years ago
Artwork: An image of a cow with a captive bead nipple ring through
its udder and a brand of the Aerosmith logo. It was designed by renowned
artist Hugh Syme Music critic Steven Hyden called it “the worst album cover ever“, expressing surprise that Syme was responsible for it given his other work.
An animal-rights group objected to the cover art, but the band confirmed the image
had been digitally altered and did not depict an actual act of animal cruelty.
The music was crap too, except for this knockout.
AEROSMITH: Instagram – All Albums
Eye-catching album cover(s) art
Band: THE JESUS LIZARD
Who: Noise rock fanatics formed in Chicago
Active: 1987–1999, 2008–2010, 2017–present
Artwork: Cover of their third album LIAR.
It came out 30 years ago this year.
The front cover artwork is titled Allegory of Death and painted British
artist Malcolm Bucknall who was born in 1935 and moved in the 60s to
Austin (Texas). More works by Bucknall here.
Stream album on Spotify…
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THE JESUS LIZARD: Story – All Albums
Back sleeve
Artist: ARMAN HAMMER
Who: Hip-hop duo – Billy Woods and Elucid – from NYC
Artwork: Cover of their fifth album HARAM
Animal rights group PETA condemned the LP’s art and called it “terrifying and cruel“, and send a message to the artists: “focus on the music, not the shock value of dead animals“.
The album’s music…
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10 July 2021
Band: KILL THE DRAMA QUEEN
Who: Alt-metal/prog’ rockers
from France/Luxembourg
Artwork: Cover of their most
recent album Refractions (listen below)
Stream/buy
album here…
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Video clip for highlight Billows…
KILL THE DRAMA QUEEN: Facebook
Every pop/rock junkie knows the glamtatsic exploits of ROXY MUSIC
but she/he also knows the sexy album artwork of several of their LPs.
Let’s have another look at foxy ladies on most of the roxy albums.
– ROXY MUSIC – 1972
– FOR YOUR PLEASURE – 1973
– STRANDED – 1973
– COUNTRY LIFE – 1974
– SIREN – 1975
– MANIFESTO – 1979
– THE BEST OF ROXY MUSIC – 2001
