Album Covers

Tarik Mohammed El-Sayed When I was given the opportunity to highlight and analyse an album cover of my choosing, ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ stood out to me immediately. This 2015 album by Kendrick Lamar follows themes of the American government’s exploitation of black art, the effects of success, and...

‘Never judge a book by it’s cover’, so the adage goes – but they never said anything about music. For anyone who saw the marvellous interview Noisey conducted with cover designer Stefan Sagmeister earlier this year, the preciousness and joy in classic album art cannot be underestimated. Stefan himself...