The Top 25 Album Covers of 2009
by Amneziak
I promised myself last year that the 2008 Best Album Covers list would be my last. Of course, I think I said that the year before as well. I’ve been doing the list now for several years with some pretty good responses. I’ve also had a great deal of fun sifting through website after website looking for the next potential cover. Believe it or not, though, it actually takes quite a while to compile only 25 album covers – ones that actually speak to me in one way or another. Sure I could slowly accumulate these over the year, but who has freakin’ time? Well, as always, I found myself intrigued again by all the great cover art I was seeing near the end of this year. With a little coaxing from Mr. P himself and a few days off from work to spare, here we go again. Some of these are fairly obvious and may have lost a bit of intrigue over the year, but these lists are supposed to be reflective. So here they are: some serious, some obvious, some playful, and some that are just downright badass. Happy Holidays TMT readers!
01
Dredg
The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
[Dredg]
02
Piano Magic
Ovations
[Darla Records]
03
The Dead Sea
The Dead Sea
[The Dead Sea]
04
Animal Hospital
Memory
[Barge]
05
Glen Johnson
Details Not Recorded
[Make Mine Music]
06
Julian Lynch
Orange You Glad
[Olde English Spelling Bee]
07
Stanley Brinks
Horns In
[Handmade]
08
Perkasie
Perkasie
[Perkasie]
09
Acoustic Ladyland
Living with a Tiger
[Strong & Wrong Records]
10
Le Loup
Family
[Hardly Art]
11
Gus Gus
24/7
[Kompakt]
12
Svarte Greiner
Kappe
[Type]
13
Early Day Miners
Treatment
[Secretly Canadian]
14
Molina & Johnson
Molina & Johnson
[Secretly Canadian]
15
Oneohtrix Point Never
Zones Without People
[Arbor]
16
Cortney Tidwell
Boys
[101 Distribution]
17
Neko Case
Middle Cyclone
[Anti]
18
Ancestors
Of Sound Mind
[Tee Pee Records]
19
Vic Chesnutt
At the Cut
[Constellation]
20
Lightning Dust
Infinite Light
[Jagjaguwar]
21
Wild Light
Adult Nights
[Almost Gold]
22
Nesey Gallons
Eyes & Eyes & Eyes Ago
[Cloud]
23
The King Kahn & BBQ Show
Invisible Girl
[In the Red Records]
24
City Center
City Center
[Type]
25
Portugal. The Man
The Satanic Satanist
[Equal Vision Records]