The Strokes: Angles

Another genius work of album art by the Strokes. But before I get into that, I need to talk for a few sentences about how awesome the song "Machu Picchu" is off this album. Go listen now. And you're welcome. Anyways, once again the strokes have an awesome color scheme on this album, with few colors but all contrasting well against each other. This is one of their more geometric album art pieces, each shape at a hard angle with an interesting perspective. Looking at this, I can understand how the aptly titled album complements the design of the album art.

The Strokes album art

The Strokes' self titled album has crazy awesome art. The bottom corner has a bunch of swirling lines that are all turquoise with a soft glow that contrasts against the golden yellow background. The hard lines in the middle and towards the top are straighter and break the background up into different shapes. The color scheme is perfect, I love the way the turquoise looks against the yellow. It reminds me of the famous clock in Prague, but I'm not really sure why.

Incubus: Monuments and Melodies

Not only is this one of my favorite Incubus albums, but the art on it is pretty incredible. It looks to be comprised of a bunch of curvy lines to indicate water but the way the lines are all broken up creates interesting shapes in the background. The piraña (I really hope I spelled that right) has the same, drawn-in look and as a whole looks cool against the background. I love that the colors are all kept simple in this, with just one shade of blue, and the band name in a contrasting color to make it pop.

Keane's Under the Iron Sea Album

I'm slowly starting to realize that my blog, which started out as an analysis of various pieces of geometric art, has turned into my take on different album art. This next post furthers the my affirmation. Anways, here is the album art for Keane's Under the Iron Sea, which I'm really in love with. The colors all work well together, and are most likely the reason I love the art so much because it showcases turquoise, which happens to be my favorite color. The sea creature vectors are comprised of some interesting shapes and have an interesting look when put with the water shapes. I'm also really obsessed with the font used here. Simple, but with an creatve touch on some of the letters (slash one letter, the curve on the A) to keep it interesting

Death Cab For Cutie: Narrow Stairs

Death Cab for Cutie's album art for Narrow Stairs is an interesting piece of geometric art. Unlike most album covers I have seen with geometric design, this one sticks strickly to one shape. Narrow Stairs is made up of many rectangles of all sizes, colors, and textures. What I find so interesting is it starts out on the left side with mostly cool colors, but pops of red and warmer colors make an appearance as you get closer to the right. I love the combination, and you can see the album art below. The album itself isn't too bad either.

Modest Mouse Album art

I've always really loved Modest Mouse, but I think they're album design is really cool as well. Good News For People Who Love Bad News has a simple design, turning a plain green wall into a "dart board." However, the darts all have a feather-like quality, though they clearly puncture the wall. There is also a small shadow between some of the feather darts that is shaped like a bird in flight. What I really like though is the line detail where the dart and wall meet. This adds something to the art and something about all the lines being parallel to eachother gives the design a more complete look. This is an example of simple album designs that can get away with being too simple.

Muse's "The 2nd Law"

Muse's album art for "The 2nd Law" caught my eye when the album was first released. Just from the name, I pictured something sciencey, and Muse managed to incorporate that aspect beautifully into the art for this album. The main focus appears (to me) to look somewhat like a brain, though it's a brain I've never seen anything like. There's a hairlike texture to it and the neon color scheme contrasts nicely with the solid dark background. Even the album title has the 'sciencey' aspect, looking somewhat like the signs an eye doctor has you read off of. I can't imagine this being an easy album cover to design, but it ended up looking awesome.

Guster's "On the Ocean"

I have so many good things to say about this album cover it's unreal. I love it. Everything about the art ties in perfectly with the album title. The color scheme is restricted to shades of blue with some black here and there, making watercolered-looking lines to reflect an ocean, and the cover appears to have a texture as well. My favorite part is how the lyrics are on the cover and how the arrangement of the words goes with the current, making every letter a different shape and size. I also love how the focus is always drawn back to the center, where there is a sailboat that has the album name and artist. I can easily say this is one of my favorite album cover designs.