Word: cd
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Fatherfucker is not a CD you’ll often want to hear, but you probably haven’t heard many like it. Peaches, the woman behind this electro mayhem, distorts gender and challenges our conceptions of what women should sing about. And with her bushy Abe Lincoln beard, about how they should even look on their record covers...
...standalone songs. Cover art generally refers to albums as a whole, not single songs. And anyway, you miss all the other art, lyrics, liner notes, credits, pictures of the artist, shoutouts to parents, friends and God—all the unnecessary, obscure and banal goodies enshrined in the familiar CD booklet...
Album art and liner notes have evolved a lot. The CD booklet is really the shrunken offspring of the vinyl LP sleeve, which was big enough to be almost a poster included with your album. It didn’t lend itself as well to belabored liner note essays or tributes—sorry Moby—but it gave artists a sumptuous amount of space to flaunt their chosen image or visual artistic vision...
...certainly drug-inspired cover of the old vinyl album. The image, of an almost human man conjuring the universe against a dark lunar landscape, fit the music perfectly, or at least complemented it well. I was distinctly disappointed a few years later when I bought my own copy on CD: the cover, shrunk to CD size, looked tacky and painfully dated...
They say one door closes and another opens. The demise of album packaging may also herald the rise of various other genres of musical iconography. Already labels are rushing to include bonus DVDs with new releases to encourage us music-lovers to buy the CD rather than simply download it. Unlike a photo, it takes more than a sultry or surly look to fill a video, which means that only those with the talent to hold your attention or those with the money or body to do so by other means can win this war. We may not know what...