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 | From Chad Bowar, your About Music Editor With the advent of digital downloads, the importance of cover art is declining. Sure, the album cover appears on your MP3 player, but in most cases it isn't very large. Still, many musicians still take great care and pride in designing album artwork. The music is always the most important thing, but a cool album cover can help draw attention to a release. | |
Best Folk Album Covers
Folk albums aren't generally known for their incredibly attractive packaging, but every now and then a folk artist manages to blend great cover art with the beautiful music inside. Here are a dozen folk albums with memorable covers.
| Top County Music Album Covers
It's an open question whether album art's glory days are over; but that also means there's hardly a better time to examine the best album covers ever, country style.
| Best Death Metal Album Covers
Perhaps nowhere is a striking cover image more important than in death metal. Countless metal musicians say that what drew them to death metal - or what initially repelled them but piqued their curiosity - was the cover art for bands like Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. Death metal bands are still trying to one-up each other with explicit and grisly images from slaughterhouses or crime scenes.
| Best R&B Album Covers
Although other music genres have been known to rely on abstract images and photographs as cover art, R&B and Soul music have always been known for their warm, creative portraits as covers. And in 2010, there were a dozen covers that stood out as being above the rest, including ones featuring Erykah Badu, Ciara, Trey Songz and Janelle Monae.
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