Presented for your approval: The cover of Erasure’s upcoming Light At The End Of The World. Is it a new solar system? An American Idol bumper graphic? Or did Jeff Lynne just get a new vanity license plate?
(Oh, and unlike that Bjork cover, we’re pretty sure this is real)
They did an acoustic album and a live in Nashville album. Anything is possible now.
That looks like a Panama City airbrush job. Gays should know better.
It reminds me of the Lupe album, especially the back cover…
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Liquor-Lupe-Fiasco/dp/B000FS9MT…
The real Bjork album cover was a lot worse.
@mackro:
@chrisb:
Exactly. Once upon a time, they could commandeer Pierre & Gilles; now they get some guy who should be customizing vans out of his parents’ garage.
The cover looks like a cross between a circa 1990 Lisa Frank binder and a customized, spray-painted shirt sold at the California State Fair carnival.
This is where gay design comes full circle, embracing something so awful, so pink, so gaudy, that the only choice people have is to gawk in awe.
On your knees people, your new overlord rocks circa ’90s ‘ice’.
This is hardly “gay design”—don’t speak for all of us. This would just be really, really tacky. Just like the music.
@Cam/ron: It totally is a Lisa Frank design.
…..Huh? I thought Jeff Lynne’s last album cover was pretty cool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_%28album%29
bunch of haters here…
leave erasure alone. they’ve consistently written some great pop tunes over the years. while the album cover leaves a lot to be desired, the first single from the record is pretty damn good!
It is a real cover. I just got a copy in the post on Friday.
Music tip: the b sides for the album are better than the album. Heard them about a month ago. Classic Erasure. Why they were pushed to b-sides is beyond me.