Got a cool submission package from Baldy Longhair Records of some of their very limited, very professional quality cassettes. This first one that we'll talk about is my favorite of the bunch, it's the Crazy & The Brains tape called "Don't Need No Snacks". The overall aesthetic of this packaging reminds me a bit of what C.M.Ruiz does with mixing photocopied imagery with hand drawn type and line work. I mean, it's not blowing me away or anything, but, it looks pretty cool for what it is....
here is a shot of the back, nice hand written song titles and a pretty funny label logo...
The inside of the J-card cover continues the hand drawn pattern work from the front cover and then has one of the most awkward looking band photos I've ever seen. It's so awkward I guess it kind of works, it almost looks like what you would expect to see on a 8x10 glossy of some early 90's alt-rock band. these inserts are professionally printed on a glossy coated paper and hand numbered out of 100...
I like that they went with a transparent royal blue cassette to match back to the insert. I've never seen a tape in this color plastic before, so they win points on that for sure, but it also works really well with the layout. Plus, all that sloppy handwriting that was printed in white on in looks killer. That Crazy & The Brains icon they came up with is rad too, hope they stick that on some t-shirts....
be sure to check out the Baldy Longhair site, where you can pick up a copy of this tape along with many of their other releases...
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