Despite the escalating rise of downloads and industry predictions that the album artwork format will soon be dead, 2009 has already proved a vintage year for record covers. Looking back over the past five months and ahead at future June releases, Gigwise presents a round-up of the best album covers of the first half of the year. Click through to see some future classics...
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Neko Case: 'Middle Cyclone' – The photo of a barefooted, hunter-like Case, poised on a Mercury Cougar car bonnet with a sword in hand, could quite easily become one of the defining music images of the year. Genius.
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