Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space Analysis

This iconic indie album art carries heavy inspiration from a pill box. Its minimalistic design is iconic as it is quite recognisable for every member of the potential audience as everyone has seen a pill box. It looks quite familiar. 

It also has connotations of this music being relieving for the listener and, like with every form of medication, could ruin you if you have too much.

The album title being 'Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space' alongside the album art being inspired by a drug suggests a high. Perhaps the band's music is so good that it would make the listener feel high. 

'1 tablet 70 min' again just emphasises the drug theme that this album carries. It is also a subtle way to let the potential audience know the actual duration of the album. 

The minimalistic design is appealing for some audience as although it isn't as 'eye-catching' as a typical album art with a picture of the artist on etc, it suggests less is more as people aren't used to seeing album arts with almost nothing special on it and will be drawn to it more. Some audiences feel that music should be literally about the music only and shouldn't host any excessive visual aspects to it as these people may feel that it is just an unnecessary distraction from bad music. 

Unknown Memory Cover

 

The cover art for this cloud-rap album is very simple. It follows a contemporary art style known as 'Vaporwave', which is art based around internet culture of the late 90s-early 2000s. This album art follows the trend by using the 'tacky' graphic design that many people used on their own social media accounts during the time such as Myspace and AIM. 

The background is used as it is prominently dark colours to represent the unknown in Unknown Memory. The pattern of the background is important also as it follows the art style as it is a typical pattern used on websites in the late 90s. 

The title text is faded as it also represents the unknowing in the Unknown Memory. The key beneath the title is a reference to lyrics within the song Leanworld, which is in the album. The lyrics are 'The Key and the Gate it's a Leanworld'. The song talks about losing a loved one whilst high and coming down and not realising what has happened, hinting at the title 'Unknown Memory'.

Meat is Murder Cover

 

The cover art for this album is very simple. The artist name sits vertically on the left side and to its right is a set of 4 identical images. The images are of a soldier in Vietnam wearing a helmet with the title of the album, 'Meat is Murder', on it. The images are shot in black and white and the contrast is heightened so that the background landscape is less prominent than the soldier's face and what is written on his helmet.

It looks relatively simple but it is iconic in how ironic it is. A soldier, a glorified murderer, is protesting how eating pork is murder, even if the person eating it had nothing to do with the death of the pig first hand.

The image is repeated because it is more impacting as a repeated image, rather than just one large picture. This is because the words 'Meat is Murder' are repeated, and repetition makes something stay in someone's head. That was the aim of this album cover, to get the point of meat being murderous across.

There is a lacking of fancy graphics and art because the most important part of the cover is the image. Also, graphics was a lot less common for album art as this album was released in the mid-eighties.