The Cribs have won an award which says they had the best record sleeve of 2007.
Others in the top ten, put together by ArtVinyl.com, include Editors, the Rakes, Various Artists and, curiously perhaps given they seemed to have ripped it from Kosheen, Interpol.
You can see the full original list from the official site, but here’s the top 10, no 20, no 25 for your perusal+(bemusement/polite accordance):
1 The Cribs - Men’s Needs Women’s Needs Whatever
2 Editors - An End Has a Start
3 The Nextmen - ‘Let it Roll’
4 Eva Be - ‘No Memory of Time’
5 Thurston Revival - ‘Somewhere There’s An Angel’
6 Various Artists - We Are Silver
7 UNKLE - ‘Burn My Shadow’
8 The Rakes - Ten New Messages
9 Interpol - Our Love to Admire
10 Husky Rescue - ‘Caravan’
11 Elliott Smith - New Moon
12 Liars - Liars
13 Tunng - Good Arrows
14 Seelenuft - ‘Horse With No Name’
15 Air - Pocket Symphony
16 Me & You - Floating Heavy
17 Groove Armada - ‘Get Down’
18 Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
19 Battles - Mirrored
20 Calvin Harris - ‘Colours’
21 The Chemical Brothers - ‘Do It Again’
22 White Stripes - Icky Thump
23 RJD2 - The Third Hand
24 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
25 They Came From the Stars I Saw Them - vs Reality
24? Tosh. Notch the number of awards you’ve been cheated out of up to two, Noah.
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Where's Hard-Fi?
Liars?
wut?
My thoughts exactly
Hope that shut the smug git Archer up!! Didn't even make the top 25. And rightly so.
jeez
the Editors is exactly like their music a dull pastiche.
The Rakes should have won from a design point of view.
Battles is a brilliant sleeve too, probably what attracted me first if I'm honest.
An End Has A Start
I think the cover's fantastic, so there!
Battles stole their sleeve
from Fripp and Eno
stole
you mean influenced if anything
interpol artwork
is dire.
menomena?
surely
In other news...
Menomena announce their next album's cover will be a boring sepia photo.
I cant take this seriously
because Menomena are abscent, easily the best artwork I have seen in my cd collection for a while!
menomena
artwork is too good. I agree. Can look at it for hours.
In all honesty
I think the art work from !!!'s latest is something pretty fuckin' special. I have it as my desktop background.
But I didn't even know UNKLE or Air released an album last year. Geez.
Surely John Maus?
yay! No fucking Hard-Fi :D
Am glad Battles and Liars are there (as they are ace sleeves) My other favorite that wasn't on the list is Asobi Seksu (...its in a florceant cd case for a start)
^^
I gave that to my friend as an xmas present, I want to buy it now for the artwork alone despite having it for a year.
The Stage Names
The knitted goodness of Okkervil River's latest should be on here.
Also...
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Rakes
that cover is just black and a few colours dots and lines (if i remember correctly)
Cassadaga
Surely?!
what a shit award.
and what a shit winner.
I don't
think it's such a shit idea, to merit great visual artistry, but some of the sleeves chosen make the whole thing a fucking joke. This could be great if they picked original and inspired ideas and chose to reward them rather than photos of fucking motorways and powerstations with some uber-modern bold font in capitols over the top...how profound.
Y
AGREED
.
of Montreal. Lavish.
Surely...
The Twilight Sad? I love their artwork, it's great.