Npoess Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Didn't like it at first. But it's growing on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlemflolia Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I like the lack of color on the outside It lets the sounds themselves assign their own color to each track rather than some preconceived notion of how it should look I think the boys themselves agree as they've said similar about track titles in the past Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pikkio Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Does TDR send in a few ideas and AE decides on the best or do they just let them do what they want? To me the artwork does give a kind of alien artifact, which is why I think it fits the album. Same impressions that gives to me, alien artifact. Plus the brown/grey/blue/green colours fits the woody wet sounds of the first cd. Exai always makes me think of the organic alien world of Xenon 2, 'cause you're in space but there's also organic underwaterlike plants/life + machines and blasting (megablast): Here's Flep the giant Nautilus flepping around: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Yeah its like Dark Matter, its all around us though it just appears to be a void/blackness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Foil Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I like the individual artwork for the discs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fields Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 doesn´t bother me too and kinda( so far ) like it, first impression was ..tetris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 in case people missed it in the big exai thread, apparently the cover is some sort of "code" or whatever that had something to do with the releasedate then someone else found out that each "square" on the cover represents a letter for each trackname, or something i don't know, i'm not boc enough to figure it out but TDR did mention on facebook that there was some thought behind the cover and they encouraged people to figure it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 but TDR did mention on facebook that there was some thought behind the cover and they encouraged people to figure it out with that said, now it's reminding me of this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertsk8er419 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 it is what it is edit @joshuatx: i believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rulohead32 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I think it's beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Lare Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Without their input maybe, but do you think a cover could go out against their will? I mean, if they didn't like it I think that artist would have to go back the the drawing board so to speak Yeah most definitely. Has AE always had their artwork done by others? Richard/AFX has done a few himself right? I care because you do, druqks? ep7 and Confield were of their own design. I think those were the best fitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acroyear Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Fair enough, but I don't think the Confield cover did much for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 The Confield cover was a screencap from a short abstract animation that Sean did. I'm pretty sure it was Sean anyway. I used to have the animation saved but fuck knows where that went... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Fair enough, but I don't think the Confield cover did much for me. the cover for Viva La Vida by Coldplay didn't do much for me. what's your point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 That was unnessecarily douchy. And that's coming from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acroyear Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Point is, the music deserved a better cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertsk8er419 Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 The Confield cover was a screencap from a short abstract animation that Sean did. I'm pretty sure it was Sean anyway. I used to have the animation saved but fuck knows where that went... must have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rulohead32 Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Actually, I want to know what Draft 7.30 cover represents, it's my favourite cover of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Found it on Youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Lare Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Point is, the music deserved a better cover. For me it had the feeling, i prefer personal naivity over cold ass design work. Jandek covers are sometimes very dull, but he made own aesthetics out of it, something much bigger than pretty design closed on itself, the emptyness, holes between layers. Ae covers are mostly other people's aesthetics (like with Rutherford or tDR) or pompous anti-covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RadarJammer Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 exai cover is charming in the way that your grandma makes you a sweater and you thing it looks ugly at first but it grows on you because its from your grandma and you love her and eventually you grow to love the sweater too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 That was unnessecarily douchy. And that's coming from me. just trying to point out: so what if a cover doesn't 'do it' for one particular person? acroyear has already stated (correct me if I'm wrong, acroyear...) that he has been listening to Autechre since the early days, and he seems to be a long time listener. so it's not beyond assumption that he would buy a new Autechre album regardless of what cover is on it. conversely, if acroyear was a prospective listener, who has never heard anything by Autechre themselves, but has listened to music of this 'ilk' before, and decides not to listen to it purely based on the cover art, well...his loss. but then that's my own personal standpoint on artwork for music. it's really cool when it's nice and it fits with a release. if it doesn't, I don't care - it's the music I'm after mostly. I happen to think the artwork fits, and I agree with whoever said in this thread that it's almost like it represents a microcosm of the album as a whole. however, my opinion is both all important and completely irrelevant all at the same time. just like acroyears, and yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 thats very linear of you oscillik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chartnok Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 exai cover is charming in the way that your grandma makes you a sweater and you thing it looks ugly at first but it grows on you because its from your grandma and you love her and eventually you grow to love the sweater too lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Confield cover perfectly suits the music imo. Yeah, the ae covers I like best were not done by tDR. I think Confield, Draft, and EP7 were the best. Of tDR covers, I think Tri Rep and Chiastic were best. I'm guessing they also did Cichli Suite? That was kinda nice. Did not like quaristice, oversteps or mot covers much at all though. Quaristice was at least interesting with the typeface thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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