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On Danello, The Sad Surfer, the album cover is the titular artist's depiction of a man falling off a surfboard. It's crude, it gets the point across, but it's beautiful. I love the way that the short red brushstrokes create a sun that's not just one blob against a creamy sky, the long brushstrokes various colors of the ocean. Nothing's just one thing and there's plenty of negative space. It's not even a scan, it's a photo of the painting. It's charmingly human. On Danello, The Sad Surfer II, the album cover is a grainy photograph of Dan staring directly at the camera. He's sitting at his dinner table. The picture is color-corrected to look like a blued photo from the 80s that's been exposed to the sun. A thin border of white space frames a full, desaturated, fuzzy picture. The new aesthetic draped over everything, obscuring a man who is looking right at us, as if to say something, but you can't quite make it out through the distorted picture.
