Nadine BeyroutiSome of you might be wondering, who notices album art these days? This day and age album art is nothing but a small thumbnail on your iTunes that serves no purpose other than identifying the song/album currently playing on your playlist. However, for someone that roams around music stores buying CDs based on their covers, album art is as important to me as the music I will be listening to – sometimes even more important.
Today I bring you a carefully curated selection of some of the coolest, most visually appealing and eye-catching album art designs from years 2011-2016 so far – in no particular order.
Incubus / If Not Now, When?
The Weeknd / House of Balloons
Chet Faker / Thinking in Textures
Pet Shop Boys / Elysium
Sticky Fingers / Caress Your Soul
TA-KU / Songs to Make Up To
Sharon Van Etten / Are We There
Feadz / Instant Alpha
Glass Animals / Zaba
MØ / No Mythologies to Follow
The Jezabels / The Brink
TVOTR / Seeds
Tinchy Stryder & Fuse ODG / Imperfection
Halsey / Badlands
Boy and Bear / Limit of Love
Titus Andronicus / The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Kendrick Lamar / To Pimp a Butterfly
Troye Sivan / Wild
Gang of Youths / Let Me Be Clear
Radiohead / A Moon Shaped Pool
Ball Park Music / Every Night the Same Dream
Parquet Courts / Human Performance
Rüfüs / Bloom
Santigold / 99¢
Isaiah Rashad / The Sun’s Tirade
Twenty One Pilots / Blurryface
Gengahr / A Dream Outside
Art Vs Science / Off the Edge of the Earth and Into Forever, Forever
Snakadaktal / The Sun II
Young Magic / Melt