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.
VARIOUS
Cedar Rock Basement Program
TOMMY MALONE
NATURAL BORN DAYS
BOY
Mutual Friends
Yo La Tengo
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Assembly of Dust
The Honest Hour
Shivaree
Who's Got Trouble?
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