| Artist | Richard Skelton |
| Title | Box of Birch |
| Label | Tompkins Square Records |
| Year | 2009 |
| Designer | Richard Skelton |
| Music | Intense pastoral timelessness |
| Notes | Beautiful vinyl edition of an album first released on Skelton’s own Private Press. Interview with Richard Skelton on Mapsadaisical’s blog.
See also: Richard Skelton, Sustain Release |
Greg Kowalsky, Tape Chants (Kranky)
Harmonic 313, Battlestar (Warp), artwork by Manuel Sepulveda.
Harmonic 313, Dirtbox (Warp)
| Artist | 1-3: Tabata Mitsuru, 4-5: James Plotkin |
| Title | 1-3: Lumrapideco , 4-6: Kurtlanmak, Damascus |
| Label | Utech Records |
| Year | 2008 |
| Designer | Utech |
| Music | Dark, noisome and cavernous |
| Notes | Two more lovely non-standard, card constructed sleeves from Utech.
See also: Utech part 1 and Sinistri |
| Artist | 1-3: Sum of R, 4-6: The Vulture Club |
| Title | 1-3: Sum of R , 4-6: Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse |
| Label | Utech Records |
| Year | 2008 |
| Designer | Utech |
| Music | Dark, noisome and cavernous |
| Notes | Two dark, striking designs by Utech. The silver ink, particularly, on Sum of R is lovely to behold. Utech designs are slender card-based productions, the black and white imagery reflecting the darkness of the music. See also: Utech part 2 and Sinistri |
A slideshow of recent and classic work by Storm Thorgerson in The Guardian online, much of it groan-inducingly awful (see above image!) and some of it rather wonderful (Led Zep’s Presence, Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma).
Cover ups: Storm Thorgerson’s iconic album artwork | Music | guardian.co.uk.
Tempting: “This original collection features the most remarkable vinyl artifacts ever produced: a connoisseur’s selection of records in a plethora of colors, shapes, and forms, imprinted with extraordinary effects and images.” And it’s written by the one and only Giorgio Moroder!