Secondary Research - Analysis on album covers

As we have decided to make an album cover for our featured artist, I thought it would be good to analyse some current album covers that are out today. Here are a few that caught my eye and would be the type of guidelines we should follow;

Robbie Willams - 'Reality Killed the Radio Star' Album Cover

I think the this cover is affective because it is simplistic yet eye catching because the image makes it personal to the audience in contrast to some album covers which include random photographs that don't link to the artist. I think that we need to make our artist connect with our target audience because the lyrics in his songs do that already, for example
"if I just close my eyes, will you be there, waiting for me"
- Wednesday Night by Alex Johnson







Another example of an album cover with the same style and message is James Morrison's, 'Songs for You Truths for Me"

However this is another album cover i like that is different to the previous two;
King of Leon - "Only by the Night"

This cover is quite quirky and catches the audience's eye because the image is different and unusual. I like the thought of using something like this for our album cover because it makes the band look interesting and makes me want to buy the CD.
The font on this cover is quite small and placed at the top which isn't a typical way of doing this. Usually the artist's name stands out to the audience. I think this band has chosen to do this because the image dominates the cover and they want the audience to notice this first and see that they are an individual band.


Kate Lydon