Sleevage

• Joy Division: Plus Minus (+ –) Dec 05th 2010 13:21

  First off I’d like to apologise to Studio Parris Wakefield for taking my sweet time to get this post together. But at least I’ve timed this post with the day of it’s release. If you have a Joy Division fan in your life then this release has been perfectly timed with Xmas gift time. Oh [...]

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• Alice Cooper: Zipper Catches Skin Nov 02nd 2010 06:00

  While putting together the Fist album collection I noticed this cover from Alice Cooper and was surprised by such a progressive cover for an artist like himself. Even more surprised it was released in the 1980s. Where are the crazy colours, geometric shapes and big loud type? The cover immediately reminded me of the XTC [...]

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• NIN: Pretty Hate Machine Oct 27th 2010 10:37

  I was lucky enough to catch this tweet by Rob Sheridan. An interesting fact about Rob is that he was hired after Trent liked his fan site! Source “I had the honor of reimagining the artwork of @nineinchnails’ classic “Pretty Hate Machine” for its upcoming re-issue: http://bit.ly/bzO9H7“ I was less interested in the cover itself [...]

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• FIST Albums: The Good and the Bad Oct 24th 2010 08:31

  The image of a fist is a universal sign of aggression, power and defiance yet there was a significant lack of albums featuring fists. I thought we’d be trawling through hundreds but it seems we have just the few seen below. It’s no mistake that most of the bands are metal and only one has [...]

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• Amazing Abstract Album Covers from the 1950s Oct 10th 2010 09:18

  I find it so hard to believe that these covers are 50+ years old. Some of them look downright modern. The following six covers were chosen by David Day who own Jive Time Records in Seattle, WA. He also runs an amazing blog called Project Thirty-Three which is worth a bookmark. If you ever get [...]

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• Minimalistic Album Covers Aug 08th 2010 10:40

  We’re a little late with posting this one but Ty Lettau) has created a series of minimalist album covers. Why? No reason it’s just what designers do. The set has been pretty successful for Ty on Flickr. You might think Ty is an unemployed designer with nothing better to do? But he’s actually the designer [...]

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• Erykah Badu: New Ameryka Part Two (Return of the Ankh) Jul 16th 2010 01:26

  Israeli-born illustrator Emek is one of the talents keeping poster art alive. Described by Henry Rollins as the “thinking man’s poster artist”, Emek continues many of the traditions of 1960′s psychedelia. His work is always hand drawn and heavily layered, mashing the political and personal; the organic and technical. Yet despite his prolific collaborations with [...]

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• Ladyhawke: Ladyhawke Jul 09th 2010 06:45

  Pip Brown, the New Zealand-born multi-instrumentalist better known as Ladyhawke, has overcome a fair bit of misfortune in her young life. At the age of ten she was diagnosed with a disease called erysipeloid, which is common in seagulls but hadn’t been seen in humans in 20 years. If that’s not bad enough, she’s allergic [...]

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• David Byrne & Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Jul 07th 2010 02:09

  If popular culture has taught us anything, it’s that we should never trust suburban bliss. Whether it’s in classic films like American Beauty and Blue Velvet or small screen hits like Desperate Housewives, manicured lawns and picket fences are invariably a front for dysfunctions, neurosis and murder. And so it is with the Grammy Award-winning [...]

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• Manic Street Preachers: Journal for Plague Lovers Jul 02nd 2010 05:41

  Things have been pretty quiet around here, we know. But we’re back baby and if you’ve missed your fix of fresh sleeves, the good news is we’re on the job. “Females”, says British artist Jenny Saville, “are used to being looked at.” As one of the most successful painters of the last two decades, Saville [...]

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• Panda Bear: Person Pitch Dec 11th 2009 03:49

  Agnes Montgomery is a Philadelphia-based artist that works in collage. Her work has been been getting heaps of attention since she was tapped by Animal Collective member Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) to create the cover art for his highly-acclaimed solo release Person Pitch (2007). “Noah is a good friend of mine”, Montgomery told us, [...]

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• Zinkplaat: Mooi Besoedeling Dec 07th 2009 12:08

  Is it just me or is all the innovative cover art being done for the least likely bands. Does being popular dictate that you must be safe? Beck would be the only mainstream artists who are doing anything innovative. Moldover, Menomena, ALB, Bright Eyes, Beck and Pine Bender all have innovative covers and yet they [...]

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• Bob Hund: Various Covers Dec 04th 2009 05:42

  Bob Hund (“Bob Dog” in Swedish) are a Scandinavian indie band that were formed in 1991. Along the way, they’ve gathered a loyal following, picked up some Swedish Grammys and spawned an English-language side project called Bergman Rock. They’ve also commissioned some pretty cool cover art, which is notable for the fact that it comes [...]

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• Metallica: Retrospective Nov 30th 2009 01:48

  Since forming in 1981, Metallica has become one of the world’s biggest selling bands, with over 50 million albums sold in the US alone. They’ve won 9 Grammy Awards and – from the battle over their first release through to the celebrated packaging for Death Magnetic – have created significant cover art as well. Kill [...]

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• Morrissey: Years of Refusal Nov 26th 2009 00:50

  There’s so much mystery about this cover that perhaps it’s better to start with what we do know. The image was taken by London-based Jake Walters, a commercial photographer with an impressive portfolio across fashion, celebrity and editorial portraiture. The adorable baby, with its cheeky little expression so at odds with Morrissey’s stern gaze, is [...]

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