We want to know which you think is the ultimate album cover, so upvote your favourite designs. Get these up on your wall as well as on your turntable. We've picked 50 of the coolest album designs ever created.
Daphnia Records, Semperflorens, Teta-Morphosis. Sometimes, even more so: legend has it that the cover of New Order's Blue Monday was so expensive to make that their label lost money on every copy sold. Profile: StillSleep is an independent home record label runed by S specializing in music that could be described as Ambient, Drone, Field recordings, Emotional guitar ambient. Interview: Night Lovell Talks About His New Album 'Goodnight Lovell' The urban scene is shaking, because Canadian rapper Night Lovell is ready to take his crown Releasing his first songs as a young teenager on SoundCloud, the rap phenomenon has already over 100 million streams on his songs. Originally just a protective cover for the fragile crackly goods beneath, it soon evolved into a space for artistic expression in its own right, very often becoming as important as the music itself.
The rise of digital music, unfortunately though, threatens one of the greatest canvasses of art seen in the 20th Century - the record sleeve. With the rise of streaming the humble album cover is becoming something of a lost art, which is a crying shame as this list of the best album covers of all time proves that there is some amazing art for the long player.