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Post by Kee on Apr 5, 2017 19:48:31 GMT
I agree the artwork looks like a mish-mash of stuff old and new.. It's not the usual uniform and precise artwork we expect from an UNKLE album. Guess we will see!
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Post by Mo'Matt on Apr 5, 2017 20:46:17 GMT
Looks like a right load of old bollocks. The cover is horrible and a total mismatch with what we can see of the inners.
Technically yes, James should be contacting the artists he steals/borrows from. Which may be why they're annoyed at him.
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Post by the fuhz on Apr 5, 2017 21:57:38 GMT
These are the icons that 90% of the audience associate with UNKLE. It is like the lips for the Rolling Stones, or the cut apple for the Beatles. All of these images appeared on (most of) their inner labels, despite any visual shift on the jacket. An UNKLE record without the pointmen would be very strange to me.
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Post by unklefloyd on Apr 5, 2017 23:08:53 GMT
These are the icons that 90% of the audience associate with UNKLE. It is like the lips for the Rolling Stones, or the cut apple for the Beatles. All of these images appeared on (most of) their inner labels, despite any visual shift on the jacket. An UNKLE record without the pointmen would be very strange to me. Agreed...I don't have a problem with the older images coming back around because they're still dope. They are even using the PF-era UNKLE font to promote The Road Part 1. I think the time is right with the 20th anniversary and all.
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Post by P01NTM4N #77 on Apr 6, 2017 8:54:30 GMT
I bet an art director sort would be weeping about now... I would have liked it if the Deluxe CD booklet had the same cover as the Standard CD and the LP releases. Also, does an Instrumental disc + different cover on the booklet really warrant a 'Deluxe' tag? 🤔
The LP set looks good though and I'm glad I have it coming - along with the deluxe CD set 🤑🔨
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Post by bm on Apr 6, 2017 9:15:20 GMT
I have no problem with the cover art nor do I have a problem with a nod to the pointmen.
This is just ugly and clunky though. No effort has been made to try and get them to either compliment each other or offer some sort of uniformity.
It looks like two separate releases.
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Post by Mo'Matt on Apr 6, 2017 9:21:17 GMT
I'm not massively upset by the old images being reused, I'm not mental. Just a bit surprised at how prominent they are and with James always on about making a new start. The main cover art is definitely something new, I'll give him that. Plus it's a but tarnished in my mind, knowing that the creators of those icons aren't happy with it. I suppose the bloke who painted the Rolling Stones logo (John Pasche) only got paid £50 originally. But, 'when the Stones copyrighted the design Pasche received a share of royalties rights, later selling this for a lump sum'. www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/02/therollingstones.designI think the time is right with the 20th anniversary and all. 20th anniversary of what? This is just ugly and clunky though. No effort has been made to try and get them to either compliment each other or offer some sort of uniformity. Yes! This is what's needed. If they overlaid the Unkle logo on top of that painting somehow it might have looked better. I wonder if Ben Drury is involved?
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Post by Dale Cooper on Apr 6, 2017 12:11:55 GMT
Sorry for the dumb question, but what is "debossed"? Sounds like negative embossed, am I right?
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Post by shivo on Apr 6, 2017 12:23:26 GMT
The artwork is a load of bollox if you ask me.
Using the pointman logo and the 3d one is as lazy as it comes. It's one thing if these were as prominently used on the artwork of other albums, but they're not. Each album had it's own distinct theme, and it worked well. Hopefully I'm wrong, and the logos only appear on the discs, but I fear I'm not.
As for the album cover itself. I don't like it. Remove the skeleton and the old man and it would be brilliant. I'm sure they both have some personal meaning, but they ruin it for me.
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Post by Mo'Matt on Apr 6, 2017 13:19:19 GMT
I hate the cover. Didn't like the cover for the last album that much either, but all the other photographic artwork from that era was fantastic.
Completely a matter of taste of course, but it's strange as I usually really like the artists that James does.
No idea what debossed means either. Looked it up, it's the opposite of embossed, as you might have guessed.
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Post by joethelion on Apr 6, 2017 14:27:23 GMT
So wait... am I the only one that noticed the connection between the 'ASAP track' and the song on 3D's "Occupy Radio" mix (from 2011)
[fast forward to about 42 minutes in]
also - if there's a full length leak of the track - it'd be much appreciated if someone could pass it on to me... I'm really curious if it develops, as the intro sounds just like the Booka Shade / Kanye mash-up
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Post by unkl77 on Apr 6, 2017 15:20:04 GMT
Methinks there's not even a whiff of Ben Drury on this- it seems amatuer which is strange considering how well every other albums art has hung together..
Is this just James putting stuff together? And where did yellow and purple come from for the coloured vinyl?!?!?
Does anyone else find it really funny/annoying that Kickstarter hasn't been used........
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Post by Kee on Apr 6, 2017 15:35:39 GMT
Have to remember this is only Part 1,
We still have Part 2 to come and the boxed set of 1 and 2 that is sure to follow!
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Post by Mo'Matt on Apr 6, 2017 15:52:39 GMT
You're assuming only 2 parts! Then the eventual special-super-edition, yawn.
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Post by interceptorr on Apr 6, 2017 16:22:39 GMT
didn't post in an eternity BUT i had to jump back in. this new album is feeling weak to me, most of the tracks we heard so far are unmemorable at best and feel like fillers. the artwork is not strong and pretty ugly, there is LOTS of strong art floating around and this is just not good. agreed with the other guys this purple and yellow makes me gringe,
the 2 videos of James in front of boxes are super sketchy, come on you can through you archive faster than that when you did multiple shows and a book.
that's it I vented my frustration and feel better (i guess)///
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