2013-11-13
It's always satisfying and thought-provoking when album art is evocative of the music it represents. The cover of Bavaria based group Aloa Input's debut record Anysome portrays a verdant jungle scene, but the presence of an eyeball lurking through the shrubbery, assorted cacti blooming within the trees, and a bird that resembles a red-breasted robin all provide a subtly surrealistic quality; not the unsettling, mind-bending surrealism like a Dali scene adorned with melting clocks and mutant creatures, but rather one fraught with pointed whimsy like Magritte's "The Treachery of Images." This is an oddly accurate visual to accompany Anysome's varied influences.
WISE IN TIME
The Ballad of Den the Men
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Old 97's
Blame It On Gravity
SLOAN
The Double Cross
JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW
Early in the Morning
PONY BOY
The Devil In Me EP
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