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Monday, December 5, 2011

Creamtastic Those Darlins Named on Pitchfork's Worst Album Covers of 2011 List

Posted by Adam Gold on Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:29 PM

Worst?
  • Worst?
Love or hate indie rock’s proverbial rectal-relevance thermometer Pitchfork Media, there’s no denying that — for musical artists — a name-check on one of their year-end Staff Lists is no small accolade. Unless of course (or maybe especially if) it’s the influential taste-making enterprise’s annual Worst Album Covers list, which this year includes Nashville-via-Murfreesboro’s Those Darlins’ 2011 release Screws Get Loose, along with the caption "And what does this smell like?"

Designed by Ovvio Arte’s Veta & Theo, the Screws cover art — which, as you can see, features a photo of singer Jessi Darlin wincing while one of her bandmates digs for treasures buried up in her nasal cavity — takes its place among other 2011 Worst-Album-Cover honorees as William Shatner, T-Pain, Limp Bizkit, sun-and-surf-inspired singers Brian Wilson and 311, and come-heroin-or-high-water rockers Steven Tyler, Scott Weiland and Jane’s Addiction.

In the past, the list has included digs at local releases the likes of Jensen Sportag's 2007 self-titled full-length and Kings of Leon's breakthrough effort Only by the Night.

Is it a well-deserved decoration for Those Darlins? Or is it a slight against the band’s artistic life choices? Disgusting as its implications may be, does the Jessi Darlin’s nose-pick capture really merit a mention alongside an album called Shit Is Bad … But Diarrhea Is Worse? Click here to peruse the full list yourself. Or venture after the jump to see a couple handpicked comparative examples.

Anyway, Darlins, hats off and congrats to y’all!

From the list:

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Dear God!

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Diarrhea Planet.

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Hot Shatz.

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Surf Around Sundown.

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Heir to Rod Stewart's throne? Face. Punch.

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Dogstar?

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That is not Diarrhea Planet.

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Posted by WOLF on 12/05/2011 at 8:29 PM

WOLF, don't you get it? It's all Diarrhea Planet. WE are all Diarrhea Planet.

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Posted by Diarrhea Planet #666 on 12/05/2011 at 9:19 PM

When you're climbing up a ladder and you feel something splatter

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Posted by Amber Taylor on 12/05/2011 at 10:20 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58YNYqN6lko

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Posted by Gold on 12/06/2011 at 12:01 AM

My reference list!! My favorite is William Shatner cover. And the Brian Wilson cover is horrible (Disney?!)
I've done my own list on my blog:

http://musica-relativista.blogspot.com/

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Posted by gaussy on 12/14/2011 at 1:05 PM
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