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.
THE SHINS
Wincing the Night Away
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Streetcore
Mia Doi Todd
Gea
STEVE WYNN AND THE MIRACLE THREE
…tick…tick…tick
Waco Brothers
Going Down In History
JOAN OSBORNE
Pretty Little Stranger
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