such as ex-Pink Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett, who officially left the band in 1968 because of mental health issues. Art, (via Rolling Stone), the album's lyrics "were all about insincerity and absence" and how the recording industry is "a moveable beast that actually takes casualties with it". (Or maybe, like most pop culture made by Jay-Z or not made by Jay-Z, it's about Beyoncé.)Īubrey Powell co-founded a design studio called Hipgnosis, which frequently worked with Pink Floyd, including its album Wish You Were Here. But it is a piece (and story) about transformation, kind of like how Jay-Z elevated himself from drug dealer to wildly successful entrepreneur and entertainer.
(Classic river god/nymph stuff.) Why Jay-Z picked this particular sculpture for an album jacket remains a mystery. Of course, he's a river god, and soon his water overtook hers. Lorenzi drew on a Greek myth about the river god Alpheus' pursuit of a nymph named Arethusa, who tries to escape by transforming into a stream. While it looks like it came from Ancient Greece (nude dudes, tight curls), it was created in the 16th century by Italian artist Battista di Domenico Lorenzi. The museum tweeted a side-by-side comparison of Magna Carta Holy Grail and the sculpture Alpheus and Arethusa.
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The source of those sculptures remained a mystery for about a week, until the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York cracked the case: It was one of theirs. Instead, it's got a black-and-white photo of a couple of statues from antiquity. Hov's 12th album is one his few releases that doesn't feature his familiar face. He didn't like his electric guitar at first either." That one had black text on a white background (as opposed to the Black Keys' mostly white on black) and read, "This is Howlin' Wolf's new album. But as the Black Keys' songs often recall music of the past, that cover is extremely evocative of the cover of blues legend Howlin' Wolf's 1969 LP The Howlin' Wolf Album. He also thought the raw, simple cover reflected a similar sensibility in the band's bluesy, rootsy rock. The name of this album is Brothers" against a black background. According to the New York Times, Michael suggested text that read, "This is an album by the Black Keys. Michael came up with the idea to just put words on a sleeve (meta, self-referencing words on a self-aware sleeve) when everyone decided to do something different from the standard album covers they'd done earlier. Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney's brother Michael designed the cover of Brothers. Sometimes, you can sell something just by saying it plain. But why such a chaotic image? Dwane said the band wanted the Babel cover to capture the spirit of their "Gentlemen of the Road" tour, particularly its "party vibes." So everyone was being unnaturally fast in the background." So that explains the blurry look. Band member Ted Dwane told Fuse that his girlfriend runs "an immersive theater company, and they came in and got everyone to go crazy. They're partying so hard there's no way they're listening to Mumford & Sons, except they probably are because all those people are friends, relatives, or employees of Mumford & Sons. The cover of the record counteracts how seriously the band takes itself and its music, depicting the band sitting on a bench (some of them are even smiling!) while behind them, in front of a pub, there is much revelry, dancing, a guy in a crazy costume, and even a horse.
The most banjoing-est band on Earth broke through in a huge way with Babel, its second album of hard-charging, old-timey American folk music as performed by a bunch of English guys in vests.
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