ALBUM ART CRUSH | Everything Everything, "Get to Heaven"

"Get to Heaven" is the third studio album by UK art-rock band Everything Everything, released in 2015. This album certainly doesn't pull any punches sonically and visually, and makes a real impression with the cover art (and explosive opening track "To the Blade").

image credit: UNA Studio

Designed by the Melbourne-based UNA Studio in collaboration with Adault Art Club and the band, the art for the entire album is attention-grabbing and agressive, with the use of bright colours and surreal, vivid illustrations by Andrew Archer. The cover art is inspired by religious iconography and faith healing, according to frontman Johnathan Higgs.

ALBUM ART CRUSH | Purity Ring, "Shrines"

"Shrines" is a release in 2012 by the electronic duo Purity Ring. For the cover and gatefold design, the band enlisted the help of their Canadian compatriot - artist and illustrator Tallulah Fontaine.

The lungs overhead was a direct prompt from one of the album's songs, "Fireshrine"

image credit: LPWTF

ART & DESIGN | punk pioneer: Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid was born in Croydon, United Kingdom in 1947 to a politically-active family. His father was an editor at the Daily Sketch, a tabloid newspaper, and his grandfather was the head of the Druid Order and had stood for parliament just before the first World War.

Reid identifies himself as an anarchist and is influenced by the Situationist movement, an anti-capitalist movement in art and politics. He found that it was difficult to understand the lengthy statements of the Situations, and aimed to "simplify and visualise" their jargon.

ART & DESIGN | uncanny ambiguity: Toilet Paper Magazine

Toilet Paper Magazine is a bi-annual, photo-based publication by Marizio Cattelan, an artist, and Pierpaolo Ferrari, a photographer. They collaborated on a photoshoot for W Magazine in 2009 and worked on a new publication for themselves, inwhich Toilet Paper Magazine was born in 2010.

ALBUM ART CRUSH | Björk, "Voltaïc"

In my first post of 2016, I hope to dedicate a segment to a that holds alot of inspiration for me: album art!


Kicking off the first album art crush is Björk's 2009 release, Voltaïc. It's a limited edition LP/CD/DVD boxset comprising of related material from her studio album, Volta. I'm not the biggest fan of Björk, but I always enjoy the unconventional approach of the designs of her album releases.