Album cover art has always been something I've appreciated and enjoyed. I can remember sitting in the 1960s and 1970s with an album cover and, if it had one, its inner sleeve liner notes for the 17 to 34 (Todd Rundgren albums) minutes it took to hear the music of the day's vinyl albums. I have my favorites: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Todd Rundgren's Something / Anything, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, and all of Nina Hagen's albums. (Nina's 1982 album release, NunSexMonkRock, is without a doubt my all-time favorite album for its liner notes.)
In recent years it seems as if album cover art has taken a sharp rise in interest and creative competence. To celebrate this trend, I've decided to post some of my favorite album covers from the 2020s.
2023
HOMUNCULUS RES Ecco l'impero dei doppi sensi
LUMSK Fremender Toner
BARONESS Stone
IO EARTH Sanctuary
THE CHRONICLES OF FATHER The Songs & Tales of Airoea Book I: The Tale of Father Robin (State of Nature)
OIAPOK OisoLün
AISLES Beyond Drama
JORDSJØ Salighet
DEPOSED KING One Man's Grief
2022
DREADNAUGHT The Endless
SIIILK Eemynor
THE TANGENT Songs from the Hard Shoulder
ANTIMATTER A Profusion of Thought
AREA The Theory of Molecular Inheritance
ELDER Innate Passage
2021
CAST Visigemus
MONOBODY Comma
KONOM Konom
THE EMERALD SKY To Touch the Sky
INNER PROSPEKT Canvas Two
JOHN HOLDEN Circles in Time
KANT FREUD KAFKA Historias del Acantilado
BEAUTIFUL BEDLAM Beautiful Bedlam
ANTONY KALUGIN Chameleon Shapeshifter
CICCADA Harvest
2020
FRENCH TV 13: Stories Without Fingerprints
MAGICK BROTHER AND MYSTIC SISTER Magick Brother and Mystic Sister
ARNAUD BUKWALD La marmite cosmique six
ABEL GANZ The Life of the Honeybee and Other Moments of Clarity
ESP Phenomenon
VESPERO The Four Zaos
STEVE THORNE Levelled - Emotional Creatures Part 3
HAIL SPIRIT NOIR Eden in Reverse
DAI KAHT II
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