Another year, another favorites of the year blog entry. I know it’s been quite a while since my last post (about a year, actually) and I don’t know if I’ll be returning to more frequent posting again, but I can’t resist making lists. Lists, wonderful and succulent lists! Okay, moving on… These are the…
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2017: Seventeen of the Best Album Covers
Some really nice graphic design in album art this year. Striking or subtle, it was all there. These are 17 or so of the best. Not sure if I was just attracted to them, but covers with circles in the design seemed to predominate… [click image to enlarge] — Feist: Pleasure There’s probably a good…
The Church – “Man Woman Life Death Infinity”
A new album from the Church. These guys have been making music for a long time – this is album, what, 25 or something? You’d think they’d have lost it long ago. Lost the drive, the inspiration, the spark. But what do we have? Man Woman Life Death Infinity: to my ears, one of the…
The Church’s “The Blurred Crusade” Cover Art
One of the most striking album covers of the early 80s is for The Blurred Crusade by the Church. The record, named after a line in the song “You Took”, was the band’s second full-length and was a collection of jangly, poetic, and powerful guitar-based rock. The music featured more varied textures than many of…
Mercator Projection, aka The Church (almost) – “Space Bootleg”
Like a transmission from deep space, the slow-build intro to a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” emerges like a slowly expanding super nova. Then everything bursts into stars and we’re off on a glorious space rock odyssey. It’s the first track on Space Bootleg, a new all-too-under-the-radar live release by the…
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