Tortoise – It’s All Around You (2004)Īccording to Jesse F. With that in mind, and after much deliberation, we give you our 100 favorites. Even in a time when album art has been reduced from the expansive real estate of a vinyl sleeve to the 150-pixel icon on your Spotify stream, that cover still serves as a signifier-from an enticing vehicle for music discovery to the familiar ID in your saved favorites. This isn’t about the music or the act behind it-at least, that’s what we kept having to tell ourselves during this selection process. Is the image unique? Does it undeniably grab one’s attention? Does it shock and stir, or does it simply please the eye? Does it succeed as a complete graphic, as opposed to simply slapping some text over an image? Was it groundbreaking or relevant at the time, and has it wedged itself into our cultural memory to this day? What makes an album cover great-or important? Obviously, a pleasing visual aesthetic is paramount, but of course, that’s subjective.
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