Artist: Lev Snowe
Single: “Someday Soon”
Details: Canadian singer-songwriter Lev Snowe has an adorable cat photo for the cover of single “Someday Soon.” I can’t blame him. That’s just a perfect cat expression. This track came out a couple of years ago, but I believe Snowe is working on new tracks.
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Artist: Jaded Star
Album: Realign
Details: Jaded Star, a heavy metal quarter originating in Greece, selected artist Jon Toussas for their album Realign. Toussas is a fellow Greek who has designed other Jaded Star’s covers, including Realign‘s first single, “Breathing Fire. ” I like the shards of whatever this robot? statue? is made of compared to the smooth lines of the figure. And that planet crashing into? combining with? the figure is just too weird.
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Artist: Inglorious
Details: We Will Ride, the latest album from Inglorious, has a dramatic cover. It’s blues, whites, grays and black – until the red of the woman’s hair. She is heading to battle on a giant horse. Or has she won a battle?
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Artist: Poorstacy
Details: Poorstacy’s cover for “Love Spells” fits right in with Halloween. The track itself was written and produced by Blink-182’s Travis Barker, who had a great Halloween at Knott’s Scary Farm in 2018.
Artist: Body Double
Details: Noah Adams from Body Double took this adorable photo of two strange and kind of spooky toys for the band’s debut LP, Milk Fed. Where did he find these baby creatures? Milk Fed is out now.
Artist: CXLOE
Details: Ash Lim is the photographer behind CXLOE’s “One and Lonely” cover art work. Lim’s photo adds some pretty cool words and symbols on CXLOE’s bare skin. CXLOE, an Australian artist, described in the press release for the track: “‘One and Lonely’ is all about loneliness. I spend a majority of the year away from my partner, and it always weighs on me heavily.”
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Artist: Rachael Sage
Details: Rachael Sage’s newest release, Character, features an awesome photograph by photographer Bill Bernstein. The red, black and white contrasts are so crisp in this one. A New Yorker as is Sage, Bernstein is known for his photos of Paul McCartney, among other wonderful subjects.
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Artist: Ill Japonia
Details: Bo Ningen‘s bassist/lead singer, Taigen Kawabe has released his debut EP, Ill, under the name Ill Japonia. It’s also the debut release for new record label Eastern Margins.
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Artist: Isabela Merced
Details: Singer-actress Isabela Merced recently released her very first single, “Papi.” Merced looks lovely, and the frame around her looks like stitching, but somehow the yellow stitching looks a bit like lights. Cool work.
