Album art is dead.
Out of context: Reply #27
- Started
- Last post
- 43 Responses
- Horp0
Fuck it man, its gone, let it be.
Time was when music was a bunch of holes punched into giant rolls of tough paper on a reel. You dropped them into your pianola and it was like a ghost was tinkling the ivories. The full colour wraps that those cylindrical reels came in were the ultimate format. Exquisitely beautiful etchings and calligraphy brought stunningly realistic evocations right into the parlour. Then wax came along and killed the cylinder format stone dead with its soul-less, completely flat squares of 12" lithographic cardboard. What was worse was that when you put them on the shelf you couldn't even see the pictures anymore, the pictures all got pressed together and you'd be left with a 2mm 'spine' that had 2pt type on you could barely read with a magnifying glass.