A source of endless fun is the album cover meme whereby random Wikipedia pages, quotes and flickr photos are the inspiration of an imaginary album cover. It works like so:
- Visit a random Wikipedia page, the title of the first page you stumble onto is your band's name.
- The last four or five words of the last quote at random quotes is your album title.
- Finally your album cover art is given by the third photo from flickr's "explore the last 7 days" section.
Below are three such covers I made, and just in time for Christmas they make ideal gifts for the family...
Firstly an Indy rock band known as March Hog Theater Company. As the cover suggests these guys don't take themselves too seriously. A three piece band formed amongst high school friends, their vocals and radio friendly riffs are reminiscent of The Arctic Monkeys, or at least their American counterpart given the spelling of "theatre". Roll over and surrender is focused on sexual exploration, teenage angst and all the sarcastic insincerity and painful poetry that comes with adolescent romance.
After her hugely successful, self titled debut just over 18 months ago, Tulsa has been back at it in the studio and wasted no time resting on her laurels. With the release of three-fourths theater Tulsa quiets any would be critics that suspected her creative well dried up in the debut and labelling her as another one album wonder. Her whimsical nature permeate throughout her classically taught piano and vocal styling, indulging the listener in a playground of child like fantasies. Singles from the album such as The cat's laundry and An ode to delicious pineapple smoothies have already topped the charts and left the rest of the world asking "what other musical gems is Slovenia hiding from us?"
Orders of magnitude's legions of devout fans will not be disappointed by their 11th studio album nature's inexorable imperative. As ever OoM explore the darker side of the human psyche and make us question what music truly is. Listen out for the ominously title track, A season of blood harvesting in the soul asylum of my mind, which was recorded entirely in the North/South Korean Demilitarised Zone underground tunnels, using a drum kit once owned by renowned serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to give the musical score that extra layer of tension. With their tried and true distorted sound and complicated time signatures OoM have given their fans more of the same fodder to feed their pretentiousness.
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