art of album covers

mondays 8:30pm, submissions gladly welcomed

[artofalbumcovers]

Nicholas Jaar - Sirens (2016)

From a photo of Alfredo Jaar’s 1987 art installation “A Logo For America”, located in Times Square.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Oneohtrix Point Never - Love In The Time Of Lexapro (2018)

From a painting by Christian Riese Lassen titled “Destiny Ocean II”.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)

From a photo college of pictures taken by David Carson from his book Fotografiks.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Unwound - New Plastic Ideas (1994)

From the front cover of the Philippe Entremont record Grieg: Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Coroner - Mental Vortex (1991)

From a modified photo of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach (1972)

From an old postcard found at a drugstore in Athens, Georgia.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (1987)

From a painting by Arthur Sarnoff, entitled "Fido and the Clowns".

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Steely Dan - Gaucho (1980)

From a painting based upon a wall plaque entitled “Guardia Vieja - Tango” (Old Guard - Tango), located in a southside Buenos Aires promenade known as Caminito.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

The Stone Roses - self titled (1989)

From a work by John Squire titled "Bye Bye Badman," which makes reference to the May 1968 riots in Paris.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement (1994)

From the March 1978 issue of National Geographic.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Mr. Bungle - self titled (1991)

From artwork by Dan Sweetman, originally published in the story, "A Cotton Candy Autopsy" in the DC Comics/Piranha Press imprint title Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

David Bowie - Low (1977)

From a still taken from the 1976 Sci-Fi film The Man Who Fell To Earth.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

The Smiths - self titled (1984)

From a cropped still of Joe Dallesandro taken from Andy Warhol's 1968 film Flesh.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Sannhet - Revisionist (2015)

From a detail of the painting Ophelia by John Everett Millais.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992)

From a photo of rhythm guitarist Zephyrous in a cemetery, during a nocturnal ritual.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Andy Stott - Passed Me By (2011)

From a photo of a African tribesman taken from a old National Geographic magazine.

Sample

[artofalbumcovers]

Negative Approach - self titled EP (1982)

From a subliminal image of Captain Howdy and Regan during the 1973 horror film The Exorcist.

Happy Halloween!!!