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Posted by Gavin Lucas, 21 April 2008, 18:01    Permalink    Comments (3)

Sebastian Tellier album
Sleeve for Sebastien Tellier's album, Sexuality, artwork by Manu Cassu. Layout by Olivia Jourde

Here at CR towers we've recently received some record sleeve designs that transported us back to the early eighties. Perhaps the most retro looking is the artwork created for Sebastien Tellier's new album, Sexuality, and supporting singles (Divine, shown below) on Lucky Number label.

Divine sleeve

ehquestionmark's artwork created for Neon Neon (Boom Bip's collaboration with Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals) also feels a bit new wave. Here is the CD artwork and the 7-inch picture disc of I Lust U.
Label: Lex Records.

Neon Neon album cover

Neon Neon album reverse

I Lust U picture disc

I Lust U picture disc reverse

And it's not just record sleeve design, we even spotted this 80s throwback video - by Partizan director Kinga Burza for a Ladyhawke track Back Of The Van.

Later this week we'll show you some more new sleeves which aren't quite so 80s!

3 Comments

I just wanted to applaud the creative use of a DeLorean here...

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Richard Holt
2008-04-22 11:16:54


Great orginal photography. Nice to see such high quality conceptual output. Just a tincey wincey bit of a shame about the standard jewel case format.
David Roberts
2008-04-22 15:58:26


I like shapely buttocks as much as the next guy (maybe even more than the next guy), but yikes, the Sebastien Tellier cover is terrible. Surfboard? Pony? Gigantic woman? The Sexuality cover looks like one of those Athena motivational posters, if there'd been one dealing with erectile dysfunction.
Simon
2008-04-22 18:44:46


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