12 awesome album covers from June 2013

Most of the best album art of June 2013 has one thing in common: loads of color.


Jon Hopkins: Immunity (Domino, 6/4/13)

Intersecting planes of existence? Neatly arranged bleach streaks? Shards of glass under a microscope?



Noxious Foxes: Epochalypso (Broth IRA, 6/4/13)

This is what came out of MC Escher’s party popper at a 1983 New Year’s party in Miami.



Rogue Wave: Nightingale Floors (Vagrant, 6/4/13)

The crude perspective and hand-drawn lines of this bridge-destroying kraken make us miss being bored in class and doodling in the margins.



Deafheaven: Sunbather (Deathwish, 6/11/13)

Undoubtedly the album cover of the year for typography geeks everywhere. Dat stroke weight.



Gold Panda: Half of Where You Live (Ghostly, 6/11/13)

Andy Gilmore created this amazing cover, which looks like a geometric blueprint of the sun at dusk. (Gilmore is featured in Chromatic, ALARM’s book about artists and musicians exploring the intersection of color and music. Get in there.)



Palms: s/t (Ipecac, 6/25/13)

Whether real or doctored (gotta be the latter, right?), this image somehow manages to be both apocalyptic and soothing.



Bosnian Rainbows: s/t (Sargent House, 6/25/13)

This cheerful and abstract image could pass as either an extreme closeup of something tie-dyed or a satellite-captured geological survey of a strange alien world.



David Yow: Tonight You Look Like a Spider (Joyful Noise, 6/25/13)

The look of raw concrete comes close to the weighty sound of this raucous album, although the deluxe edition, which was encased in actual concrete, is probably closer.



µ-Ziq: Chewed Corners (Planet Mu, 6/25/13)

In the glitch art movement, this effect is called an “RGB shift.” Elsewhere in the world, it’s called “whoa, dude.”



Honorable mention
The Andreas Kapsalis & Goran Ivanovic Guitar Duo: Blackmail (6/4/13)



Honorable mention
John Vanderslice: Dagger Beach (Tiny Telephone, 6/11/13)



Honorable mention
BoySetsFire: While a Nation Sleeps (Bridge Nine, 6/11/13)