Bronwyn CD Covers

Best Coast

Best Coast CD cover is suitable for their genre of indie rock, as first look on the CD cover you know it's not a pop artist, as they don't have a photograph of them on the front cover. Where as most pop artist do. And you know it's not heavy rock or metal, as it doesn't show dark colours or consumption for that genre. We know it's going to be indie as it has that quirky old school style to the cover as they've used a pop art effect. 

The pop art affect it effective as they've used collage to design their cover. It's different to other CD covers, as it's got no reference to music as it's a beach with a cat on it but it has a reference to their name, as 'Coast' in their band name means a part of land near the sea. The lettering of the bands name (Best Coast) is cut out of a map, which works with the theme of their band name being a place and it works well. The colours are colourful and eye catching, as they are bright. 

It's a good CD cover as they've followed the theme through out the CD. With the CD having the cat designed on. And the back using the same collage parts from the front cover, with the titles of songs written in old typewriters effect to keep with the old school vintage look.

As the CD cover doesn't have the band on the front cover it shows they are a niche band as there not in to having the focus on them it's all about their music. They are probably signed to an independent label as when studding the music industry last year. Artist that were signed to a big recording label had them self but on the CD cover too.

Florence and the Machine

'Florence and the Machine' have a slightly different genre style to 'Jenny and Johnny', although they are an indie band they are still more pop and it's a British indie band where as 'Jenny and Johnny' are American, so there's going to be some difference. 

Florence and the Machine CD cover for the album 'Lungs' is artistic and vintage. It fits with Florence vintage image with the clothing she's wearing and the background of the mise-en-scene is a vintage old curtain with birds and flowers in the background. The colouring of the front cover has a pastel effect and the black background makes the colour stand out. It's got an artistic look as the album is called 'lungs', Florence has a lungs necklace on her chest to represent the album covers name. With her being on the front cover it does show she’s more of a pop artist and that she is signed to one of the ‘Big Four’.

The theme of ‘lungs’ does follow through the whole album cover as at the back they’ve got a sketch of lungs drawn on a black board. I like how they’ve been artist again by labeling the songs to different parts of the lungs as if it’s a diagram at school.