welcome back! very sorry for the month-long radio silence on my end, i have been a little preoccupied with personal matters and this blog had to go on the back burner for a minute... i've had this Bukkake Boys Lp on Sorry State in the blog que for quite some time now so i should probably get it out while i have a second. pretty cool cut & paste photo collage for the cover art of this release, where a single photo of a face is cut down and repeated to form the shape of a candle. the typography chosen looks to be a hand set letraset which gradually slopes downward along with the composition. the whole thing feels like it could have been made on a photocopier, and i like it...
these jackets are professionally offset printed black ink on an uncoated heavy paper stock, folded and glued. things get even more awesome on the back cover with a crazy mirrored and abstracted photo piece. this thing looks like it could be cut out and accordion folded to make two separate images (like a Mad Magazine cover or something). the typography switches out to a thinner / cleaner approach and is ordered into columns at the top...
inside the jacket we have a 2 sided printed dust sleeve, black ink on white. on this first side we have an organized lyric sheet with a pic in the center. the pic and the liner notes below kind of throw off the balance of the lyrics, it probably would have been better to work those in on the other side, but it's not a deal breaker for the design. the type kinda looks like it was made with a late 80's word processor and then scanned back in?...
things go a little "off the rails" on the other side of the dust jacket, where it looks like they couldn't decide if they wanted this to be a photo collage or a lyric sheet so they just parked it somewhere in the middle. they probably should have just scrapped the photo collage idea since they only had enough images for one side. the lyrics look a bit awkward as they form around some of the images, leaving odd open spaces in other areas...
the A and B labels are the same, but they do a nice job of marrying the Sorry State "standard issue" format with their own hand done typography. black ink on silver labels is a classy touch...
be sure to grab this from Sorry State, they are a solid and hard working label that deserves your support...
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