Research for the album cover.

The next task that I will be completing will be designing and making a Digipak which includes an album cover.

I have been researching album covers from similar bands to ours.

Vampire Weekend:

 One band that is quite similar to ours is Vampire Weekend. For their self titled album, they used an old style image which is simple, understated yet cool, which seems to be the style of the genre.

Another example is their album 'Contra', where they used a polaroid image of a model, which fits in with their 'vintage' theme.

The model that they used, Kirsten Kennis, actually sued them for the unauthorised use of her image. This is certainly something that I have to keep in mind. I would not be using found images anyway, so there would be no risk of that.

Despite this, I think that this album cover is cool and stylish. One idea that I have for ours is using a polaroid of Raphi, the girl who stars in the music video. This would tie in nicely with the video and create a recognisable image and brand for the artist.

Alt-J:

 Another band that I looked in to was Alt-J. rather than using a conventional image of the band or a model, they prefer to use more conceptual pieces of artwork for their album covers.

For their first album 'An Awesome Wave, they used  a multi-layered radar image of the Ganges river delta in Bangladesh. This ties in with one of their videos for 'Tessellate' which was shit in this location. This is a very subtle connection, but this cater for fans of the band as if they researched into it, they would find this connection pleasing. This is also cool and understated, as to anyone else it would just look like cool artwork.

For their next album 'This Is All Yours' they used an abstract art piece, again this is very conceptual which fits their unique and 'alternative' style of music.

While being 'unique' it also fits into some conventions of the genre, as other indie artists have been found to use pieces of art for their album covers. I will put some examples below.