This album cover is very simple, but I feel it's also very effective. It features a polaroid image, which has been filtered slightly and the bands name is contrasting bold white letters. The image has been taken at a house party of some sort. The image was taken by Annie Fields. Here are the original pictures, the left one featuring a couple of the band members.
The image of the chandelier for the front cover has been taken from a low angle. It could seem to be taken with little artistic intent, but either way it has worked affectively for the band's album cover. The bands name, also being the album title, is centred in a basic font across the cover.
The colour scheme is again effective, the image has been filtered with a orange/pink overlay and gives the image a darker look from the original and the white text contrasts it well. The scheme through the cover, back, CD etc. is fairly unattached. The CD is a bright yellow and features the band name in the same font as the cover in blue text. The CD also features abbreviations of the track listings, which is relatively unconventional.
The inside cover features plain black text with two columns with acknowledgements to people involved with the band and a list of band members.
The back cover is again non-matching to any colour scheme and is the only dark part of the digipack. The text used is very different to the block-basic text used on the cover and CD but is quite formal, in a serif font.
I think this album, the cover in particular is quite basic, but eye-catching. I think to design an album cover like this would be fairly simple but the image would have to be right and also eye-catching and work well with the text. However if I could take an image good enough it would be fairly straightforward to replicate this type of cover, as shown with this mock up that I did in about 5 minutes. But this also illustrates the difficulties of making an album cover look professional.
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