Textual Analysis 4 - CD Covers

We looked at different CD covers and albums which gave us the chance to think about our own and how I should make the one for my project look like. I decided to look into a few other albums whilst I was at it, in hope to get more ideas and decided to look and see how in depth the artists for the covers thought into making them.

Foreground Eclipse

Foreground Eclipse are a Japanese band which make arranges of character songs specifically from a certain game and add vocals over the top that would match that character, they're also known for making a few songs of their own which are known to be quite emotional or hold some sort of meaning.

Looking at their album covers, each one includes a character from the game they rearrange character songs for and that characters rearranged song is often the title for the album - as noted by the title being called "Seated with Liquor". The background and pretty much everything on the cover is based about the main specific character and their personality as well as their story.

• What is noted from the cover of the album is that the female is holding a weapon, many would indicate weapons to war or some kind of violence and the idea of violence would make people have an idea of what sort of genre this band would sing which is punk rock/metal, varying between the two depending on the song they're doing.
• The logo for the band is present in the bottom right corner as the logo has a crescent shape as though representing a crescent moon for the idea of the 'eclipse'.
• The colours used for the title of the album shows a contrast as it varies between red and white - two colours that represent different things. The red would be loud and is seen as a loud colour - possibly hinting at some sort of screaming which is linked to the colour easily. The colour white represents the sense of purity and innocence which is could represent the female singer for the band who sings in a soft tone and contrasts with the screamer/drummer of the band who would be represented by the colour red.

The Black Keys

The Black Keys are a band made up of two members only and were formed in America as the members only play guitar and drums which is all a band could need if made up little numbers. They fall under the genres of garage rock, blues rock and indie rock and have a variation in song titles.

The duo met when they were young and are technically classed, anyone could class them as, the best of friends as they play even to this day their music which seems to have caught the hearts of plenty of fans. They released their eighth album which was also seen as a single only last year, (2014) which was named "Lonely Boy" and won three Grammy awards.

• The album I'm looking at is the album named "Brothers" which could also give a sense of how the two feel about each other as from looking at the background of the band, they appear to be the closest of friends and hence why the title came to mind.
• The bluntness of the wording for the titles can work with their attitude as well as it appears to be quite sarcastic and almost looks down on their audience; this is purposeful but despite the that, I doubt what they're implying is on purpose as it is more for comedic value above all else.
• The colour scheme of red/white/black contrasts with one another as red makes us look at it the most as it's highlighting the bands name and it could imply that they, as a band, are trying to stand out above everything else. The white and black is simply a contrast in colours and how the two colours are at the other end of each other and don't mix well.