Favorites of 2010: Covers

2010 was a year of album covers that refused to conform; many appeared either intelligently well designed or obnoxiously ugly. The following covers would be of the former variety. In no way does this reflect our opinions on the music that these covers represent, we just found these striking enough to make this list.


Autre Ne Veut - Autre Ne Veut (Olde English Spelling Bee)


Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar)


Caboladies - Caboladies (DNT)


Cacaw - Cacaw (Permanent)


Caldera Lakes - Caldera Lakes (Død Univers)


Church of My Love - Church of My Love (Tic Tac Totally!)


Eric Copeland - Strange Days (Post Present Medium)


Dead Luke - American Haircut (Floridas Dying)


Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Editions Mego)


Ensemble Economique - Psychical (Not Not Fun)


Growing - PUMPS! (Vice)


Heavy Winged - Sunspotted (Type)


Koen Holtkamp - Gravity/Bees (Thrill Jockey)


Kvelertak - Kvelertak (Indie)


Liars - Sisterworld (Mute)


MGMT - Congratulations (Columbia)


offthesky - Hiding Nature (Home Normal)


Pale Blue Sky - Shades of Grey (Arbor)


Past Lives - Tapestry of Webs (Suicide Squeeze)


Rob Walmart - Everybody Hurts (Marriage)


Solo Andata - Ritual (Desire Path)


Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (Modular)


Tobacco - Maniac Meat (anticon.)


Woven Bones - In And Out And Back Again (HoZac)



Xiphiidae - Iiustus/Transresonance Formation (Stunned)