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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Album cover analysis

The Lemonheads 'All of these things sank'

I've decided to analyse this album cover, to be fair i do not know anything about this band but found the cover lurking my house and it really caught my eye.
A slight description of who they actually are, well, they are an American alternatice rockband formed in 1986 formed by singer/guitarist Evan Dando, who has been the bands only constant member.

I chose this band purely because out of the majority of them it was the most different and has something obviously strange about it that draws you to want to pick it up- which i think is needed in an Album cover.

The front:

  • A childish looking cover
  • background of a roughly coloured in piece of paper
  • tatty white piece of paper stuck over
  • dead space between images and writing
  • 4 random images drawn like a toddler would've drawn them; car, button, 2p & cloth
  • ^ car, button, cloth is the name of the album
  • name of band written in red at the very bottom
  • a brown 2p
  • blue car
  • yellow cloth with dots in
  • red button
  • all writing exc. name of band is black
  • Name of band is in red
Spine:
  • inside has alternating drawings of a van and a spikey dog thing
  • lemonheads in pink
  • car button cloth in white
  • black background
  • TAG recordings
  • reference code
Back cover:
  • 13 songs in black
  • very small song titles left of side
  • 3 cut out pictures of car cloth and button stuck acros the back
  • big bold cartoon dog dominating the cover
  • rough brown background
  • bar code bottom left
  • bottom right the information of production of the cover
  • bottom centre logos
  • 'produced by Bryce Goggin' small bottom of cover
Overall, the album cover follows the majority of the conventions and to me is a very well thought cover. It is different, easy and moreover very simplistic.
As they say 'little is more'

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