i was stoned and saw the above, and couldn't recall this thread existing previously.

so, post best/worst/awesomeist. or whatever.

God damn it. I'm the ultimate Cam fan/apologist, and yet these fucking random-ass mixtapes always pass me by. THAT shit is clearly classic. I'm just furious that I didn't even know it existed, until now. Continue. Sorry.

just plain sad.

much love to the av club.

this is doubly good, because the title is so spectacularly bad as well.

Jesus Christ.

hey guys i read design blogs and have a FFFFound account guys guys

Here are some cool ones:

Whoa, is that an Alcest cover I'm looking at?!?! Didn't realize they had a new one coming out. You heard it yet, Sask?

I personally think that's a pretty good one, though I do read fashion and design blogs.

Not yet, but it's due out in Europe in March via Prophecy (no NA date yet, but one is imminent), so it'll leak soon enough.

that alcest cover is great. i'm sure the music will be just as gorgeous.

to make up for all the terrible rap mixtape art, here's a great one from oj da juiceman:



fitting considering the typeface debate going on in the j newsom thread.

agreed. it's definitely trendy design, but it's still good. or maybe you'd like everything to look like that Jeff Beck cover, User?

MGMT.

That is awesome.

that looks like the best game of Sonic the Hedgehog ever.

ha, that's exactly what was said around my office.

i am no MGMT fan but that cover is really good

That album cover kicks ass.

Here's another solid one:

people are liking that bullshit? looks like typical baltimore art school bullshit (and yes, i know they're not from bmore, but whatever). that shit crested a while ago, excuse the pun.

edit: the mgmt, not the wu-massacre.

I hate that MGMT cover. The "It's cool cause it's shit" aesthetic (a la Merriweather Post Pavilion) does nothing for me.

The Wu-Massacre cover, however, is badass. Always been a fan of Bachalo's art, from Shade and Generation X, to Steampunk. Pity he's mostly stuck doing hired hand bullshit these days.

ogawa, once again you prove yourself a force for good.

that junk art aesthetic has its place and that place is not on the cover of a major label release. typical rich kid slumming act. i think about dan deacon's jump from the spiderman of the rings album art (eh, inoffensive, colorful) to the bromst cover (which is fucking gorgeous and evocative). this mgmt cover is just lazy.

It's this guy:

http://www.ausgangart.com/

how is pop art slumming it? Um, Velvet Underground & Nico?

Andy Warhol is a much better artist than Anthony Ausgang.



This is a good piece, though.

That was just one example. I could throw out Little Feat, Grateful Dead, Miles Davis' On The Corner, just about any prog record from the 70s, etc.

The cover of Bromst is pretty cool. Didn't really give much of a shit about the music, though.

I'm not really sure how this is lazy though. It's a commissioned cover. Frankly, for an album by MGMT, it's pretty fitting.

I just don't like Ausgang. And I don't think STE was blanket-condemning Pop Art, which encompasses so many different styles, but rather the specific style of work that Ausgang produces (and has been producing for quite some time now). Ausgang doesn't really belong in the same company as the other artists you mentioned, though (regarding categories, not necessarily quality).

yeah, what ogawa said.

i'm not trying to criticize the whole of pop art. hell, i love a good deal of it. i just think that this particular incarnation brings a recent movement to mind, one that is ill-fitting for a major label artist, and that the whole thing smacks of a creative dearth. i like mgmt, so i'm not trying to bash the band, but this cover is just kinda ugly. not offensively so, but a boring eyesore. at least mpp had the optical illusion going for it. this looks like a freshman mica art project.

Steampunk forever, man. Steampunk forever.

He needs to finish it, dammit. Worst blue balls ever.

I'm not sure how this or MPP fall into "cool because its shit" category, they both seem like legit, well polished, attention grabbing covers to me. cool because its shit would be those stupid fucking indie drawings.

Stupid fucking indie drawings aren't necessarily trying to be cool and hipper-than-thou, though.



This doesn't seem like it's trying to be cool and ironic and "can you believe we made this our cover, lol."



This does.

Semantics. I love AC, but all of their album covers are shit.

Exception (sort of): Person Pitch

person pitch is a great cover. and mpp's cover fits the music really well.

A headache?

mpp's cover is awesome. minimal and maximal at the same time. it moves!

trippy and watery and rhythmic and colorful and hypnotizing

Seriously. It'll never happen, though. Either way, I gotta dig through my crates and read them shits, now. Thanks for giving something to do, tonight.

see, now that^ cover is upsetting.

That is truly one of the most horrible covers I've ever seen.

harvey darger's just like the fambly cat.

ha, i was going to come here and post that. that has to take the cake. terrible photoshop is somehow always far worse when it involves confused-looking cats.

Henry Darger, bro. He did not write "Flagpole Sitta."

whatever. i make my own reality.

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bad
would be a lot less bad if it weren't for that white thing but still kinda bad.