Memorable Album Covers of 2015
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Take 2 minutes out of your day and enjoy a quick overview of some of the most memorable album cover art of 2015. The first few slides contain speaker notes.
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Memorable Album Covers of 2015
- 1. Memorable Album Covers of 2015 David J. Deal http://www.davidjdeal.com December 2015
- 3. Incendiary Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
- 4. Urgent and topical Wara from the NBHD, If Guns Could Speak PSA
- 5. Striking Petite Noir, La Vie Est Belle (Life Is Beautiful)
- 6. Mysterious Tropic of Cancer, Stop Suffering
- 7. Romantic Bob Moses, Days Gone By
- 9. Surreal Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear
- 12. Hot mess Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
- 13. Provocative Fall Out Boy, American Beauty/American Psycho
- 14. Retro Bob Dylan, Shadows of the Night
- 17. Mysterious Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, After
- 18. Intense Nadine Shah, Fast Food
- 19. Too hip for school Colleen Green, I Want to Grow Up
- 20. Way cool Leon Bridges, Coming Home
- 22. Gritty Fetty Wap, Fetty Wap
- 24. The train wreck you can’t ignore Grimes, Art Angels
Editor's Notes
- The massive success of Adele's 25 has prompted the music industry to speculate that maybe the record album as an art form isn't dead after all. are back. Well, they aren't -- Adele is back. Meantime, the album remains stuck in a long, sad period of decline. But the demise of the album hasn't stopped artists from continuing to grace us with memorable album, and 2015 was no exception, as my new SlideShare presentation illustrates vividly.
- The year was notable for the appearance of some over-the-top, in-your-face covers from mainstream artists, with some classically elegant and visual mind benders tossed in. It's as if musicians everywhere got together and decided, "Screw it -- if albums are going away, let's make the last gasp a memorable one."
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- But not all covers needed to be outrageous to be memorable. The album cover art for Fetty Wap's self-titled album was honest and real, and Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly was socially provocative and thoughtful. Meantime, Colleen Green's smart-alecky smirk on the cover of I Want to Grow Up was what rock and roll attitude is all about, while Leon Bridges's Coming Home and Adele's 25 were throwbacks with their classic designs.
- Albums may never return to their glory days of the 1970, but album cover art never went away and will remain an important way for musicians to connect with fans and represent their art for years to come. As I've mentioned before, their function has changed -- from gracing the cover of a single work to acting as a visual totem published across many touch points, ranging from an artist's Facebook page to their merchandise.
- Albums as we know them are dying. Long live record album art.
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