Artist: caro♡
Album: wild at ♡
Details: Beautiful work from Dian Liang, a Shanghai-based artist. I love how shiny, yet dark, her art is. Look at those wolves! Those claws! In It’s Nice That, Liang said she tries to “paint psychology.” Enthusiastic praise from her Instagram followers include such comments as “OMG furry,” “furry powah,” and “Immaculate.”
cover art for wild at ♡
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Artist: Sophie Powers
Single: “Nosebleed”
Details: This is Sophie Powers’ debut single with Atlantic Records. Congrats! The cover, with a photo by Anya GTA, looks like Powers is in a very fun game. Except for the nosebleed, of course. I like the bubbles, and Powers’ expression is spot on with the song’s lyrics: Yeah, we don’t care at all/And we feel nothing, even though we feel it all/We stay running off of no sleep/Stay running like a nosebleed.
Sophie Powers‘ “Nosebleed” – photo by Anya GTA
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Artist: Peach PRC
Album:Manic Dream Pixie
Details: Who doesn’t love loads of pink? And pixies, and butterflies? Australian singer Peach PRC sure does. This lovely photo and art work comes from Billy Zammit, a fellow-Aussie who also has celebrated musicians Peking Duk and done numerous fashion projects.
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Artist: Rowan
Album: DOES IT MAKE YOU HAPPY?
Details: With artwork by Stewart Armstrong and Rowan’s drummer Fionn Hennessy-Hayes on photographer duty, DOES IT MAKE YOU HAPPY? is a colorful mix of flowers? Oil paint? I am not sure what this is exactly, but it’s very pretty. This is the Irish band’s debut album.
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Artist: Luke Evans
Album: A Song For You
Details: Welsh actor/singer-songwriter and the generally amazing Luke Evans just released his second album, A Song For You, including covers of “Over the Rainbow,” “Last Christmas” and “My Way.” There’s also a duet with actress/singer Nicole Kidman on “Say Something.” I believe this is the first song Kidman’s done independent of a film since 2001’s “Somethin’ Stupid,” a duet with Robbie Williams. The cover is a smoking hot photograph by Ed Cooke of Evans.
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Artist: Fancey
Album: Star Dreams
Details: The New Pornographers’ guitarist Todd Fancey has a solo project! Did you know? Star Dreams is the fifth album from Fancey, which got some great artwork from Antoine Diligent, who thought up an intergalactic blue flower with a rainbow and stars streaming out of it. Beautiful.
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Artist: Meditations on Crime
Album: “Heloise” (single)
Details: Meditations on Crime, Julia Holter & Harper Simon, have released a single called “Heloise.” Artwork for the single comes courtesy of photographer Jessica Craig-Martin, whose work is often “cropped and obliquely angled photographs (which) rarely allow for the identification of her subjects’ faces.”
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Artist: Kishi Bashi
Album: 151a (Reissue)
Details: Kishi Bashi reissued his first album, 151a, to commemorate its 10th anniversary. Hsiao-Ron Cheng contributed the artwork for the cover of a cute little child and a cute huge tiger. Cheng, who is originally from Taiwan, is a painter, illustrator and digital artist. Happy Year of the Tiger!
