Album design critique
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- d_rek0
I like the imagery and type on both of them.
However I feel that compositionally the first one is stronger (heirarchy and relationship of illustration and type works better). It also seems more uplifting - if that's the intention. As far as kerning i think you're good until you ge to the last pair of letters: the a-n. The space there feels like it needs to be tightened a bit.
The second cover invokes associations with that whole electronic/techno/massive-attack style cover imagery. Also, there seems to be more focus on the 'kauf' than any other part of the typography because of the way the gradient is applied.
After further examining the type I think you have something really nice going on with the artist's name. I think the subtext falls a little short as it feels rather frail and unimportant. This could just be the compression of the image tho.