Album As Art
[The Album As Art Section aims to spotlight artists that are using vinyl, cassettes and CDs/CD-Rs as a canvas of sorts for all manner of expression. Sleeve art, colored vinyl, inserts, mixed-media -- album As Art is a celebration of those who understand this newfound priority. Click on the links below to read reviews, click on the images themselves for a larger view. GORGEOUS!]
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Bitchin Bajas – “Water Wrackets” LP/DVD – Kallistei Editions [AAA #171]
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The Cramps – “File Under Sacred Music: Early Singles 1978-1981″ – Munster Records [AAA #170]
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Plante – “Harvest” LP (clear) – Fedora Corpse Records [AAA #169]
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Ghoul – “Transmission Zero” LP [AAA #168]
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German Army – “Papua Mass” tape – Night People [AAA #167]
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Sword & Sandals – “Good & Plenty” LP – Empty Cellar Records [AAA #166]
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San Francisco Water Cooler – s/t – Sun Sneeze Records [AAA #165]
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Pink Playground – “Destination Ecstasy” LP (pink splatter) – Mexican Summer Records [AAA #164]
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Geb The Great Cackler – “Life in Prison” tape/booklet [AAA #163]
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Ensemble Economique – “Crossing the Path, By Torchlight” LP – Dekorder Records [AAA #162]
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DMZ – “Radio Demos” LP – Munster Records [AAA #161]
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Burial Hex – “In Psychic Defense” 12-inch – Sound of Cobra Records [AAA #160]
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Sujo – “Terran” CD-R – Inam Records [AAA #159]
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Martian Church XX / Elks – split tape – Free Loving Anarchists [AAA #158]
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Sadness Saturn / Golden Raven – “Satanic Lysergia” / “Beams Of Energy” tape – Handmade Birds [AAA #157]
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Various artists – “Bay Area Retrograde” LP – Dark Entries Records [AAA #156]
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Nu Sensae – “TV, Death and the Devil” LP – Nominal Records [AAA #155]
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Kommissar Hjuler Und Mama Baer & Ninni Morgia And Silvia Kastel – “Two Couples” LP – Ultramarine Records [AAA #154]
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Mickey – “Rock N Roll Dreamer” LP – HoZac Records [AAA #153]
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Zachary Cale – “Noise of Welcome” LP – All Hands Electric Records [AAA #152]
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Comoros – “White Flower” (white) LP – Fedora Corpse Records [AAA #151]
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Cave Bears – “Jump to Your Bed” LP – Feeding Tube Records [AAA #150]
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Socrates That Practices Music – “Further Conclusions Against an Italian Version (BAT)” LP – Junior Aspirin Records [AAA #149]
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Various artists – “Boston Hassle” comp (MP3 button) [AAA #148]
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Olivia Tremor Control – “Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle” 2XLP [AAA #147]
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Garrincha & The Stolen Elk – “Void” LP [AAA #146]
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Nico – Death and the Maiden” LP [AAA #145]
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Twin Lion – “Awesome Power” tape [AAA #144]
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Dystopia – s/t LP [AAA #143]
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M. Geddas Gengras – “Rebirth Los Angeles” tape [AAA #142]
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Morbosidad / Pseudogod – split [AAA #141]
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Colour Bük – “Our Favorite Fucking Day of the Goddamn Year” tape [AAA #140]
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Parade Ground – s/t LP [AAA #139]
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Rafael Toral – “Space Elements III” LP [AAA #138]
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Villages Of Spaces – “Alchemy and Trust” LP [AAA #137]
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Bruce Hart – “Music for Drawing” tape [AAA #136]
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Mincemeat Or Tenspeed – “Games of Chance” tape [AAA #135]
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Rape Faction “Gone Forever” LP [AAA #134]
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Catholic Guilt – “Postcards from Copper Canyon” tape [AAA #133]
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Sewn Leather – “Sewn Leather – “Sikknastafari Slash Crasstafari” LP [AAA #132]
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Polypus Acephalous – “The Outcast Tribes” tape [AAA #131]
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Terrors “Lagan Qord” LP [AAA #130]
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Black Elephant “Four Years” tape [AAA #129]
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Collection Of The Late Howell Bend – “Beasts for While” LP [AAA #128]
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?” 2XLP [AAA #127]
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Song Of Zarathustra – “Discography Vol. 1″ LP (pic disc) [AAA #126]
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Drunkdriver – “Born Pregnant” LP [AAA #125]
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E. Danziger – “Ghoul Mysogyny” tape [AAA #124]
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Raw Thug – “Sugar Pills” tape [AAA #123]
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Lace Bows – “Glitter Pulse” tape [AAA #122]
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Magic Trick – “The Glad Birth of Love” LP [AAA #121]
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Pink Priest – “Endless Love” tape [AAA #120]
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Amocoma – “Go to Hell” CD [AAA #119]
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TMT “Cerberus” #24 [AAA #118]
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Rat Catching – s/t LP [AAA #117]
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Aerosol Constellations – “Painted Deserts of the Emerald Beyond” tape [AAA #116]
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Skill 7 Stamina 12 / Same Thing / Toilet – split LP [AAA #115]
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Tomáš Dvořák – “Machinarium Soundtrack” LP [AAA #114]
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Dog Day – “Deformer” LP [AAA #113]
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Crows, The / Mama Tick / Casus Belli – “Research & Development Series” 7-inches [AAA #112]
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Hair Police – “Totaled and Stranded” LP (etching) [AAA #111]
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Soft Healer – “Grand Isle” 10-inch (one-sided pic disc) [AAA #110]
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Bobby Beausoleil – “Lucifer Rising” 4XLP box [AAA #109]
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Machetazo / Marrow – split LP (razor-shaped) [AAA #108]
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Thee Oh Sees – “Grave Blockers” 2X7-inch [AAA #107]
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Bear In Heaven – “Whole Hearted” 12-inch [AAA #106]
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Neptune – “Untitled / Improv” LP (orange splatter) [AAA #105]
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Happy Jawbone Family Band – “Hotel Double Tragedy” LP (gold) [AAA #104]
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The Chinese Stars – “Turbo Mattress” EP [AAA #103]
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LIttle Girls – “Concepts” [AAA #102]
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Fin Fang Foom – “Monomyth” [AAA #101]
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Alec Empire – “Alec Empire vs Elvis Presley” [AAA #100]
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Various artists – “Rock is Hell 8X7-inch box” [AAA #99]
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Burning Star Core – “Papercuts Theater” 2XLP [AAA #98]
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Esoterica Landscapes 7 – “Hokmah Nistarah” LP [AAA #97]
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Chll Pll – “Aggressively Humble” LP – Porter Records [AAA #96]
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Tobacco – “Maniac Meat” LP (red) [AAA #95]
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Darlings – “Yeah I Know” CD/booklet [AAA #94]
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White Shit – “Sculpted Beef” LP [AAA #93]
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Various artists – “Michigan Nuggets” LP [AAA #94]
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Sylvester Anfang II – s/t 2XLP [AAA #91]
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Thee Oh Sees / Intelligence – split LP [AAA #90]
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Dig That Body Up It’s Alive – “A Corpse Is Forever” LP [AAA #89]
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Crombie – “Forest Walk” CD [AAA #88]
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Various artists – “The Stuff Dreams are Made of” 3XCD [AAA #87]
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Wavves – “King of the Beach” LP [AAA #86]
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Jonsi & Alex – “Riceboy Sleeps” 2XLP [AAA #85]
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The Melvins – “Neither Here Nor There” book/CD [AAA #84]
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Earth – “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I” 2XLP (red, etching) [AAA #83]
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The Impossible Shapes – “Tum” LP – St. Ives [AAA #82]
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Thee Oh Sees – “Castlemania” 2XLP (gold, black, etching) [AAA #81]
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Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting – “Bubblethug” 2XLP [AAA #80]
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The Hidden Cameras – “The Arms of His Ill” 10-inch [AAA #79]
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Trance Farmers – “Scooby Doobie” [AAA #78]
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Dennis Wilson – “Pacific Ocean Blue” 3XLP (blue) [AAA #77]
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Desolate Horizon – “Desolate Horizon” tape – Reality Impaired Records [AAA #76]
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Converge – “No Heroes” LP [AAA #75]
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Adventure Time – “Glass Bottom Boat” 12-inch LP [AAA #74]
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Blue Sabbath Black Cheer – “For the Sickly Weaklings” LP [AAA #73]
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Babe, Terror – “Preparing a Voice to Meet the People Coming” tape/CD [AAA #72]
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Orthrelm / Touchdown – split LP [AAA #71]
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Explosions In The Sky – “Take Care, Take Care, Take Care” 3XLP (brown/green/etching) [AAA #70]
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Æthenor – “En Form For Blå” (white) 2XLP [AAA #69]
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Syd Barrett – “An Introduction To…” 2XLP [AAA #68]
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Lougow – “Dull Thicket” LP [AAA #67]
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Sun Kil Moon – “Admiral Fell Promises” 2XLP [AAA #66]
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Dissonance – “Pizza box” [AAA #65]
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D Rider – “Mother of Curses” LP [AAA #64]
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Various artists – “The Brown Bunny” LP [AAA #63]
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Hawkwind – “Space Ritual Sundown V2″ 2XLP [AAA #62]
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Death “The Sound of Perserverance” 2XLP [AAA #61]
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Tristeza – “Paisajes” [AAA #60]
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Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Smoking Acid” EP [AAA #59]
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Mincemeat Or Tenspeed / Drums Like Machine Guns – split [AAA #58]
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Hair_Loss / Dave Smolen – split [AAA #57]
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Jüppala Kääpiö – “Tomentum Totem” cassette [AAA #56]
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Thee Oh Sees – “Warm Slime [AAA #55]
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“Going to Extremes” comp (Part 2) [AAA #53]
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“Going to Extremes” comp (Part 1) [AAA #52]
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The Album As Art Awards!!! [AAA #54]
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Zach Hill & The Smokers – “Destroying Yourself…” [AAA #51]
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Tempo No Tempo – “Waking Heat” LP [AAA #50]
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Masters Of The Hemisphere – “I Am Not a Freemdoom” LP [AAA #49]
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Hair_Loss – “The Initial Everything’s Wonderful” LP [AAA #48]
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Afcgt – s/t red 10-inch – Dirty Knobby Records [AAA #47]
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Mouth Of The Architect – “Quietly” 2XLP splatter – Translation Loss Records [AAA #46]
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Doom Snake Cult – “Love, Sorrow, Doom” yellow splatter LP – Nuclear War Productions [AAA #45]
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The Beach Boys – “Smile” red LP – Sea Of Tunes Records [AAA #44]
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Sylvester Anfang II – “Communen Cassetten” pink LP – Blackest Rainbow Records [AAA #43]
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Muscles – “Muscles” CS – Unread Records [AAA #42]
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Meerk Puffy – “Nung” – Animal Disguise Records [AAA #41]
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Mason Lindhal “Serrated Man Sound” (orange marble LP) [AAA #40]
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Rayon Beach – “Memory Teeth” 12-inch [AAA #39]
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The Robot Ate Me – “On Vacation” 2CD/hand-made book [AAA #38]
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Leopard Leg / T.I.T.S. – split 2XLP white/orange [AAA #37]
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Nightpass Handmade Quilt Series [AAA #36]
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Various artists – “Tomorrow Will Be Worse: Vol. 1″ [AAA #35]
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Combatwoundedveteran – “Duck Down for the Torso” 10-inch” [AAA #34]
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Fields Of Shit – self-titled 10-inch [AAA #33]
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Volcano The Bear – “Classic Erasmus Fusion” 2XLP [AAA #32]
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Mt. Eerie – “Live in Copenhagen” 2XLP/etching on “D” [AAA #31]
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Jennifer Gentle – “Sacramento Session” [AAA #30]
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Nurse With Wound – “Space Music” LP [AAA #29]
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Ty Segall – “Horn of Unicorn” LP blue [AAA #28]
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Servile Sect – “Stratospheric Passenger” LP [AAA #27]
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Graveyards – “Blues for Night People” 2LP red/green [AAA #26]
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“Let Them Know”: The Better Youth Organization LP set [AAA #25]
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Oren Ambarchi – “In the Pendulum’s Embrace” 2XLP [AAA #24]
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The Robert Delaney Radio Show “s/t” 7-inch [AAA #23]
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“Yulesville” – Warner Bros [AAA #22]
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The Sights – “Are You Green?” [AAA #21]
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Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Just Like Kicking Jesus” EP [AAA #20]
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Edward Ka-Spel – “Lilith and the Rose” 10-inch pic disc [AAA #19]
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Black Moth Super Rainbow – “Don’t You Want to Be in a Cult?” pic disc [AAA #18]
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Merzbannon – Satan’s Kickin’ Yr Dick In remix – Tizona Records [AAA #17]
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Black Cobra – Feather and Stone – At A Loss Records [AAA #16]
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Thee Oh Sees – Zork’s Tape Bruise – Kill Shaman Records [AAA #15]
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Lava Children – s/t – Graveface Records [AAA #14]
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Kill Me Tomorrow – The Garbageman and the Prostitute – Gold Standard Laboratories [AAA #13]
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The Mars Volta – Octahedron [AAA #12]
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Prince – Purple Rain 12″ [AAA #10]
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Signor Rossi soundtrack [AAA #11]
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Modest Mouse – “Perpetual Motion Machine” [AAA #9]
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The Je Ne Sais Quoi – “Making Love With Time” 12-inch [AAA #8]
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Test Icicles – “Boa vs. Python” [AAA #7]
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Bravo Fucking Bravo – s/t pic disc – Friends Forever [AAA #6]
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Babe, Terror – Weekend – Perdizes Dream [AAA #5]
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PRE / Mule / Yowie / Colossamite – “Sides 11-14″ – Skin Graft [AAA #4]
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Torche – In Return – Robotic Empire Records [AAA #3]
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Acid Mothers Temple – “Dark Side of the Black Moon” [AAA #2]
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Smegma – “Boils and Carbuncles” [AAA #1]