Thursday, December 11, 2008
Cream / National Skyline / Whatevs Pitchfork Names 20 Worst Album Covers of 2008: Nashville Gets Mentioned Again
Posted by Seth Graves on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:46 PM
College Radio Birdman
Today Pitchfork name-dropped quite a few artistic offenders before
posting their 20 worst album covers of 2008. If you'll recall, last
year Jensen Sportag was included among these for their self-titled full
length featuring artwork by Ariel Pink. This year another Nashville
band got an unfavorable shout out on the list without making the
official cut. It's unclear which cover of Kings of Leon's Only by the Night
didn't fare so well with them. I'm finding two different versions
online, but I'm guessing it's the creepy-but-still-not-so-effective
birdman morph. There really isn't much of a point for me posting this
other than to say "Good job on keeping those album covers pretty this
year, Nashville."
And hey, while I've got a chance to turn this around and end things on the
positive tip--it doesn't really seem like we give local album covers
a whole lot of attention on here these days. Surely someone is putting a
great deal of thought and energy into them hoping to catch our eye when
walking past that local rack at Grimey's. Who's got a pick for best
local album cover of 2008? Mine is a tie between Ghostfinger's The Feeler and Caitlin Rose's Dead Flowers EP.
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