For the front cover, I don't want to have the face of the artist because I believe with the type of artist I'm working with they would be more focused about the music. In using the artist's face it suggests your also selling the artist as opposed the music. I think the album would be along the same theme to the music video, have a theme of nostalgia with subtle washes out of colour and feature out of focus lights.
I've looked at various CD covers that are of the similar indie/indie folk genre to the song I've chosen.
The album covers from Kodaline are all quite different. Coming Up For Air showed the faces of the band but they were distorted and overlapped creating a ghost like effect. The previous album In A Perfect World had a scenery picture as the CD cover rather than using the artist. For the I Wouldn't Be EP the cover had a picture of a house, the songs on the EP are very nostalgia driven. Each album has similar font for both the album title and the band name.
The artist that originally sang the song I have chosen is called Passenger. Looking at his last few albums, none of them show the artist's face but are in some way related to the title of the album. Whispers and whispers II are the most popular albums by Passenger with their CD covers have a direct link to each other. Showing two children whispering on the first and two older people whispering on the later album. The actual CD for Whispers showed simply the album title and the name of the artist.
the boy who cried wolf was once again a very simple approach. The music for this album had a more relaxed feel to it than the music from the previous albums Young As The Morning Old As The Sea, Whispers and Whispers II. I think this shows them trying to sell the music more than the artist.
For Jamie Lawson's album 'The Pull Of The Moon' he used the ides of old style film and developing with the blur and overlapping of colours. The album cover shows a butterfly pulling the moon. Jamie Lawson's other albums 'Jamie Lawson' and 'Happy Accidents' have simple front covers. 'Jamie Lawson' has a simple nature outline that has an orange coloured overlay. 'Happy Accidents' has a blue and yellow cover with a picture of Lawson as a child on the front.
Everything This Way was the debut album by Walking On Cars and the grey scale background with coloured balloons fitted with the slightly dark songs on the album. The indie folk/indie rock style of the album had some dark tracks but there were positive elements woven thorough out, moments of happiness expressed in the coloured balloons,.
Looking at the different albums from the artists I listen to, I think the cover will have a washed out look on the front with brighter colours on the back to contrast it. For the booklet, I think I want to do something with the idea of blurred/out of focus lights. I've chosen the track list for the album and there is a mix of happier songs and more emotional or dark ones and I think the contrast of light and dark through the album cover will relate to that as well as the website.
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