There’s a topic for music recommendations and there’s a topic for music videos… But I haven’t found one for album covers! Which is a shame because a good cover can really make a difference and have artistic value.
So share your favorite album covers here if you wanna!
Will drop this here for now since it’s my post. It is more storytelling than visual art based, but every album needs a cover:
https://a-lilian-garden.discourse.group/t/what-even-is-the-scene-anymore-a-study-into-the-album-art-of-bands-that-dont-exist/866
Here are some of my recommendations:
Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Duster - Contemporary Movement
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Pinebender - Things Are About to Get Weird
Maybeshewill - "I Was Here for a Moment, Then I Was Gone*
Love, Claire - Love, Claire
looking back on the ones we picked . . . we think we have a bit of a “type” - can you tell we like circles?
also we cheated, one of these is the art for a single, but the art for its album is also really good too
circles are good fr
also I’d count singles as well since those can have some amazing covers
I didnt get the joke/word joking when a friend of mine recommended me this album, just later that i noticed that the monkey had a suit, instantly went :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Circles!
And… okay wow, this is interesting. I’m just glancing through my library for anything vaguely circle-y, and I came across this.
The album is Logan Archer - Cycles. I wasn’t able to find anything by searching that name. Reverse image searching brought up this page. As of a 2019 edit, the Bandcamp page is down and none of his music can be found anywhere. I possess lost media.
It’s something I must have downloaded at least ten years ago. I only ever listened to it a handful of times, but I remember it as being something very personal and heartfelt. I always remembered the special thanks he included with the album. I can stick that here.
It was something small. Something that didn’t really seem to matter. Something insignificant that to anyone else would have meant next to nothing.
But to me, it was the gold I had been seeking.
A few words, spread across an idealistic mind like a rapture, given in such plainspoken yet eloquent terms. It was perfect. It was the exact thing I needed at the right time.
Sitting in the office where I recorded my first EP, now with better equipment in the room before me, after months of withdrawals and hours of pain in trying to write, it finally came to me. The words flowed out of my mind and onto the paper in fluctuating waves, but it felt so natural. Never before had I written in such a fashion, so straightforward yet plaintive, so simple yet carrying so much weight.
Thanks be to her who gave me the inspiration. Thanks be to my friends who helped me realize this effort as what it eventually became:
“Cycles”
Thanks be even to her who put me through hell, out of which I came armed with broken songs. Thanks be to my parents, who were watching television the next room over as I recorded the aforementioned song. Thanks be to the Beatles, to Elliott Smith, to Yo La Tengo, to Daniel Johnston, to all the beautiful artists whose work inspired me to create. Thanks be to God and to those who do not believe in Him for the inspiration just as well. Thanks be to all the people in my life who have ever been genuine and incredible.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. To all of you.
It’s only 37 minutes of music, but it’s 37 minutes that mean the world to me.
Do I upload this for archival purposes, link it on the wiki page? Do I assume he took his Bandcamp page down on purpose and doesn’t wish for his music to be found? I’m not sure what to do here.
oh wow, this is some interesting stuff. definitely a tough question whether you should upload it. on one hand it would be a shame for this to be lost, but on the other hand i think his decision to delete the music should be respected…
yeah our perspective is that when eventually we get possessed by anxiety and take down all our work in one fell swoop, we wouldn’t want someone to put it back up. we would want to be forgotten
we keep a lot of things like that, as they were given to us in good faith and they’re important to us . . . but yeah
Yeah. Although it’s possible that the Bandcamp page is not down of the man’s own volition, and it feels like he should’ve nuked that wiki page if he was intent on disappearing (he was maintaining it himself after all), I can’t be certain of what happened. If I have to weigh the benefits of satiating the curiosity of a few people online vs potentially doing something that works against the author’s wishes, I think I’m going to just be cautious.
Have an album cover!
