Album Covers

Aphex Twin - Drukqs




















Primal Scream - Screamadelica



Metallica St. Anger








































The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

Typical Features-

Typical features of these front covers include:

The name of the band/artist

The title of the album

The band/artist's logo

A picture of the ban/artist

Categories-

There are however several ways to categorse the above albums, for example the front cover:

Image of band/ artist = Marvin Gaye, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Eminem, Amy Winehouse
Photo of something/someone = Royksopp, Incubus, Alexisonfire - Crisis, Dilated Peoples, Aphex Twin
Cartoon/drawing - Primal Scream, Alexisonfire - Watch Out!, Metallica

Furthermore, these albums could be split up in terms of their genre. For example, both Primal Scream, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience have covers with highly saturated colours on them, refelcting the drug scene associated with their style of music.

The distorted image and blurry text reiterates the crisis-stricken scene of that time. The black and white images displays a sense of clarity with the red-writing depicting blood and again the portrayal of a certain crisis in modern day society. The band are proud of their Canadian roots, and this is shown in the images featured on the back and booklet; pictures of a canadian street snowed in are seen regularly within the album's artwork. The urban and almost unofficial aspects of both the band their label are reflected yet again in the higly distorted images and the monochrome image of the abnormal hands.

The lyrics on the inside of the album are also important, as the three seperate vocalists can be easily distinguished via font and colour. For example, the screamed lyrics are seen in red (George), the harmonies are in italics (Dallas) whilst the other vocals are seen in standard black font (Wade).