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The Album Cover Is Dead?

I don't think so, but Peter Saville does...

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  • I dont see why the death of the CD should be seen as the death of album artwork as well. I think the Santogold cover shows perfectly how good artwork still exists in 2008. And whats wrong if it only appears in a square inch display on an iPod? It’s still there. It’s still good to look at. Embrace the future.

    ~ by JG 8/17/2008

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  • The artwork appears all over the place anyway, not just on your ipod. Peter is from the age of touch and smell.

    ~ by divxdavex 8/17/2008

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  • The artwork had to be nothing less then austonishing 20 years ago, when there wasn’t such a thing as digital promotion. Artwork made a big part of a record’’s marketing, and so, maybe, the influx of great art could be explained. My favorite from 2008 is Viva la Viva by Coldplay and Nude with Boots from the Melvins (totally badass cover!)

    ~ by Tibi 8/17/2008

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  • I reckon it still has to be astonishing, but there’s always been really lazy album art. Anything with the artist just posing, logo and album title is boring.

    ~ by Abdi 8/17/2008

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  • Hi. Yeah. Don’t know what your creds. as an art critic are, but that’’s not a renaissance" painting. try again.

    ~ by Nigel Mellish. 8/17/2008

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