top ten album covers: summer ’12 edition

One of the less appreciated aspects of music is album artwork.  In the age of digital media (and bootleg files), a music fan might never even see an album’s artwork.  But yet there’s so much fantastic artwork out there accompanying our favorite music.

I’ve combed summer releases looking for album art that is interesting, engaging, or just plain awesome.  So here, in no particular order, are my ten favorite album covers from this summer.

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Purity Ring -

Shrines

[4AD]

DIIV -

Oshin

[Captured Tracks]

The Tallest Man On Earth -

There’s No Leaving Now

[Dead Oceans]

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti -

Mature Themes

[4AD]

Hot Chip -

In Our Heads

[Domino]

The Orwells -

Remember When

[Autumn Tone]

Yeasayer -

Fragrant World

[Secretly Canadian]

Wild Nothing -

Nocturne

[Captured Tracks]

The Antlers -

Undersea

[Anti]

Deep Time -

Deep Time

[Hardly Art]