What's the greatest album cover of the new millennium?

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Another Eternity by Purity Ring Amazing album!

thanks! I'll def check it out :)

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omfg...

is that a good "omfg" or not really?  

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Omg noooooo

 

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is that a good "omfg" or not really?  

no it's incredible! WWhoever did that cover put in a ton of effort.  

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no it's incredible! WWhoever did that cover put in a ton of effort.  

For the cover of Purity Ring’s second full-length album, the band and illustrator/Edmonton homegirl Tallulah Fontaine both knew they wanted to do something a little lighter than the cover they used for Shrines, which Fontaine also illustrated. Before they knew it, Fontaine was sketching s-x organs.

“When we were working on the gatefold art, Megan [James, Purity Ring vocalist] looked at me and said, “I feel like everything is getting too serious. The album name, and the band — can you just draw some penises and vaginas?’” Fontaine recalls, laughing. “And I said, ‘Yeah. That’s great.’ Though it did yield a lot of horrifying Google searches.”

Fontaine created s-x organ diagrams for the album’s gatefold art, including little ovaries and veins, and some of those went on to make up the bright planet that hangs in the center of the another eternity cover, pulling James into a sky pink sky. Corin Roddick, the other half of the band, came up with the cover concept, but all agreed that they wanted to complement the brighter, romantic music on another eternity with a sci-fi vibe that recalled the early 90s—when alien abductions were the rage and extra-terrestrials just wanted to ride around in your bicycle basket.

Renata Raksha, the fashion photographer who also shot St. Vincent’s album cover last year, took the cover photo of James floating toward Fontaine’s planet; then, Raksha assembled the final cut of the cover.

Fontaine is clearly a very comfortable collaborator for the band. “Almost always, I find the artwork she does for us is a picture of exactly what I was trying to say or describe with my words,” says James. “She encapsulates our atmosphere in her own iterations, but if feels like the exact same expression.”

A trip to the movies somehow validated everything for Fontaine and the band. “We saw Interstellar a few days after we finished working on the album, and we were so excited,” Fontaine says. “We were new to LA and the movie had all these sunsets and we thought, ‘This is exactly how we wanted the album to feel.’”

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Wow..  

I wish I was that artistic...

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I did a search, because I haven't seen any in a long while that struck me. I found these enticing.

Only the album art, not the music or bands.

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Just my opinion tho. They all look aesthetically pleasing to me. I think Ghost Stories and Another Eternity may have the best album covers of the 21st century so far tho.

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All of Demi's 

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Not even kidding. It's a really intricate design. For those who don't know, the physical copy fades and reappears as you tilt it. So, tilt it one way and you see her entire human face, tilt it the other way and you slowly see one side morphing into a robotic interface, it's amazing. It was inspired by the D*Face drawing of Marilyn Monroe where one side of her face is a grotesque skull (Christina has the image framed in her house and the guy who drew it designed the album cover). Also, on the image in the album booklet, there's a map of what each part of the machinery represents, things like acute hearing and unique sound, referring to the ways Christina uses her voice. I can't think of many great covers from the last 15 years, but this is always the one I think of without a doubt. I just wish the music inside was as perfect as the cover.

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