Album covers or artwork that best convey the mood of the music

[Einherjar86]

I haven't heard the whole album, just the singles they constantly play on the radio, which I like to some extent. I like the colors and the scenery, but I think the imagery and subjects are rather grotesque in an off-putting way. I don't have any objections to how it's done technically, just subjective stuff about how I think the people are weird and lame looking. Heh.

Also, the top header taking up that much of the cover...for the fail.

Hearing the radio singles in relation to the entire album really draws out its unique (I think) sound. It has this melancholy sense of reality, but with a touch of spirituality that lifts it above the mundane. The lyrics really evoke a kind of detached spirituality, like something being written in order to escape a dreary world. And in some moments the album really soars, like "Lightning Crashes" (which everyone knows) and the finales to the songs "Iris" and "Pillar of Davidson."

If you're ever in the mood for really good post-grunge I'd recommend it. It's one of my favorite 90s albums. I truly think it's unmatched when it comes to that era.

Another I'll throw out there is Genesis's Trespass:

The album has a very mythological/pastoral tone, which I think is captured in the artwork.

 

[Goffdahl]

This

 

[Eligos]

Well, Goffdahl, we have the exact same music taste according to last.fm. Guess it's time for us to have children.

 

[divine_torture]

 

[no country for old wainds]

i like to think i could imagine the sound of these albums to some extent based on these covers:

 

[no country for old wainds]

plus tons of others including stuff by bands like manilla road, the chasm, rev bizarre etc obviously

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

This works for me. Minimal, primitive and striking.

 

[no country for old wainds]

there's also tons of terrible album covers which suck in exactly the same way as the music they're representing, might do a list of those at some point

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

How do you mean?

 

[-CC-]

I disagree in the context of the title...cool album art, but it really doesn't fit with the mood of the music at all..

In fact the only Suffo album cover that does IMO is Breeding The Spawn

 

[divine_torture]

How do you mean?

Really doesn't fit the music.

Or this one:

 

[Krow]

Creepy, dark... evil.

Dark and foreboding, but yet somehow beautiful /gay

Abstract and makes pretty much no sense

Blatantly satanic evil. Simple, which works because they're doing nothing more

 

[Einherjar86]

I thought he meant art that's equally as terrible as the music on the album.

EDIT: @d_t

 

[Doomguy]

I think that this cover is really good for setting the sorrowful and nature-inspired concept that the album portrays.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

At first I really liked that cover...now...meh.

 

[divine_torture]

I thought he meant art that's equally as terrible as the music on the album.

EDIT: @d_t

Oh, you're right. I read that wrong. In that case:

 

[Einherjar86]

At first I really liked that cover...now...meh.

I don't like the lamp post. That always frustrates me when looking at that album cover.

Oh, you're right. I read that wrong.

Although, technically, it's still achieving what I say in the initial post: artwork reflecting the music.

 

[divine_torture]

Although, technically, it's still achieving what I say in the initial post: artwork reflecting the music.

Yeah, and I'll think of more, but I have to express my hatred for Prince.

I think Danzig II has an appropriate cover, though.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Yeah, and I'll think of more, but I have to express my hatred for Prince.

I like Prince... that cover is hilarious though.

 

[waif]

Dark and foreboding, but yet somehow beautiful /gay

Anyone else get a really disney feel from that?