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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 15/06/2026

looking at a top covers of 2026 so far article, if there's any covers you feel deserve a spot, please share!

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 21/05/2026

Mandy, Indiana's 'URGH' (2026) features cover art by artist duo Carnovsky. It's bright colors break into layers of the human head, recoiling upwards, as if annoyed or displeased. albumcoverisdead.com/urgh-mandy-i... #albumart #albumcover #music #blog

An album cover with layers of the human head drawn in cyan, magenta and yellow

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 05/11/2025

Haven't been able to write anything lately between classes and commitments, but I wanted share some of my highlights from the past couple months! Sudan Archives - The BPM BRUIT - The Age Of Ephemerality ︎Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 01/06/2025

I thought this one was really cool, has a bit of a distressed pop art look

An album cover with bold type "Stereolab" with bright colors and shapes, at the top "Instant Holograms on Metal Film"

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 01/06/2025

Altogether, this forms the whole concept of the album, a surreal, late-night convenience store with nostalgic items and design, not grounded in space or time, possibly taking the listener or visitor as a prisoner.

An album cover with the front of a convenience store at night with neon lights and signs

The backside of a vinyl cover with the back of the convenience store, with graffiti all over the building, dumpster and trash bin, song titles on the roof

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 01/06/2025

The album cover for Black Hole Superette was created by Justin "El Coro" Kaufman, who had created the covers for Aesop's recent albums, Integrated Tech Solutions, Garbology, Spirit World Field Guide, and collaborative album with Rob Sonic, Hail Mary Mallon's Bestiary.

An album cover with the head of a monster with lots of tongues

An album cover with a drawn garbage bin overflowing with assorted items

An album cover with a over the shoulder of another, both looking at an old computer with assorted items surrounding them, a person meditating, a rocket, electronics, and flasks and beakers filled with liquids

An album cover with a glowing red skull in front of a levitating deer in the woods

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 01/06/2025

Aesop Rock — Black Hole Superette (2025) #aesoprock #albumart #albumcover #coverart #music #blog Full post: albumcoverisdead.com/black-hole-superette-aesop-rock/

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 12/04/2025

The album cover as a whole is a landscape photograph in the Sahara desert. On the front, several large red-orange balls are placed in the sand, with long shadows as the sun sets. The balls move away from the viewer, rising and falling over the terrain and into the horizon.

A full spread of an album cover with a photograph of red balls in a sandy desert and text in the sky "ELEGY/THE NICE"

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 12/04/2025

The Nice — Elegy (1971) #albumart #albumcover #coverart #music #blog Full post: albumcoverisdead.com/the-nice-elegy/

An album cover with a photograph of red balls in a sandy desert and text in the sky "ELEGY/THE NICE"

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 12/04/2025

One of my favorite ambient artists, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill is so wonderful, it's like phasing between a dream and reality. Some interesting covers, fairly abstract with the A I A covers.

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 02/04/2025

When all 3 albums are placed next to each other, you may notice that all 3 covers combine to spell out their names horizontally, in order. Watsky shared that he and his friend built a scriptto find 3 words that work this way, and built his next 3 albums around these words.

3 album covers placed together (Complaint, Placement, and Intention) combining to spell the album names horizontally

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 02/04/2025

Watsky, Intention (2023) The final album is Intention (2023), which released slightly more than two years ago. When the album was initially released, it was a 9 track LP just like the other albums, but shortly after was revealed to have 9 more track, unlocked after completing an online puzzle.

Album cover with red objects forming "INTENTION" in a 3x3 grid on a black-and-white statue of a human torse holding a toddler in one arm

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 02/04/2025

Watsky, Placement (2020) The second album is Placement, another 9 track LP that's a bit more youthful and fun compared to Complaint. Topics for this album include youth, politics, and living despite facing hardships and suicidal thoughts.

Album cover with pink, orange and yellow text "PLACEMENT" in a 3x3 grid over a saturated photography of suburban houses in front of a beach

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 02/04/2025

Watsky, Complaint (2019) The first album of the trilogy is Complaint, a 9 track LP that displayed a more pop and indie influence compared to Watsky's earlier work. The album is lyrically darker and slower too, discussing topics like love, insecurity and solidarity among the sad.

Album cover with white text "COMPLAINT" in a 3x3 grid over a dark and blurry photograph of George Watsky, with diagonal cuts createing lines

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 02/04/2025

The Watsky Symmetry Trilogy #albumart #albumcover #coverart Full post: albumcoverisdead.com/the-watsky-s...

Three posters of Watsky's album covers from the Symmetry trilogy, Complaint, Placement and Intention

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 31/03/2025

Squid, Cowards (February 7) A experimental post-punk & rock LP. Evocative with just a few elements. There's also great movement as the eye follows the stinger across the composition. Love it despite the somewhat painful imagery.

Album cover with two fingers holding scorpion stinger above another finger

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 31/03/2025

Mogwai, The Bad Fire (January 24) A warm and psychedelic punk LP. The cover is punky and colorful, with a cool MOGWAI type cut off on top and bottom.

Album cover with "MOGWAI" text and painting of a volcanic crater with pink, blue, green and yellow

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 31/03/2025

flipturn, Burnout Days (January 24) A happy indie rock LP. On the cover is a figure either being impaled or releasing a beam of stars from the chest, with a sort of colored-pencil or crayon style that feels youthful, bright and energetic.

Album cover with a white figure with stars going through chest

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 31/03/2025

Orkun A. Spirit Frequencies (January 1) A dreamy ambient LP. The cover features 12 beautiful abstract shapes that match the flowy nature of the lush ambient pads that form the base of the tracks.

Album cover with 12 abstract shapes and title "spirit frequencies"

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 31/03/2025

Best Album Covers of 2025, So Far #albumart #albumcover #coverart Full article: albumcoverisdead.com/album-covers...

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 29/03/2025

Beautiful album cover and beautiful album. Yumiko Morioka's first album Resonance is also incredible and has two great covers (1987 original and 2020 reissue)

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 27/03/2025

clipping. album covers historically lean abstract and simple, and this is no exception, though this cover feels a little more detailed. There is an additional vinyl edition available: Loser Edition with a pink insect on the cover and pink, green or silver record.

A vinyl record with the Dead Channel Sky album cover with a pink insect and two green records

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 27/03/2025

The album cover was designed by The Designer's Republic, an influential British graphic design studio, best known for their work in electronic music logos and album artwork, with artists such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, LFO, and The Orb.

An album cover of Aphex Twin's album "Syro", with a long list of text on the left side and a white background

An album cover of Autechre's album "Amber", with a sandy elevated structure and miscellanious flora, and a small formation of water at the bottom

An album cover of LFO's album "Frequencies", with large blue text "LFO" and a tall, thin figure in white over the "L"

An album cover of The Orb's album "the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld", with an abstract blue shape with a circle and sunburst inside

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Album Cover Is Dead @albumcoverisdead.com · 27/03/2025

Dead Channel Sky is the most recent album from experimental noise & hip-hop group, clipping. It released earlier this March and was their first album in 4.5 years, since their horror influenced album Visions of Bodies Being Burned (a follow-up to There Existed an Addiction to Blood.)

A photograph of a group of men (clipping), William Hutson, Daveed Diggs and Jonathan Snipes

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