it is with great pleasure that i bring you a new blog post on a top notch release, the brand new Deep Sleep Lp! i've loved every record these guys have put out (musically as well as visually) and i'm elated to finally get a review up on this site...
if you've been keeping up with this blog over the past 2 years, it most likely will come as no surprise to hear me say that i love a band with both a strong and consistent aesthetic, and Deep Sleep continues to dominate in category as far as current bands go. each record layout is tigthtly conceptually crafted by their singer Tony, who has a remarkable knack for transforming 1950's film stills into compelling punk imagery. while all their cover art has been great, the use of repeated and split imagery on this cover really elevates it to a new level while also revealing an evolution of process...
these covers were professionally offset printed and glued on a nice coated cover stock paper. back cover is pretty straight forward, a simple live shot collage of the four members and then the song titles neatly arranged down the center. clean and easy....
the insert to this record is a 12" x 24" fold out poster which was also professionally printed on a coated paper. the main art side is a continuation of the front cover idea, pulling more vibe from 50's film idols for all you nostalgia buffs, but more importantly it the continued use of repetition. pretty nice looking poster if you ask me...
flip this bad boy over for the lyric sheet, and watch out cause tony is a master when it comes to utilizing a letraset type sheet. those crisp helvetica song names looks so good with the typewritten lyrics too, i'd actually have a hard time deciding which side of this insert to hang on the wall....
black and red labels on white vinyl is pretty juicy. side A gets all the info across...
side B label is where the eye-candy lives, nice little cut and paste job over here...
Hey! Thanks so much for the nice words, I just want to make sure credit goes where due. Alex D actually did all of the nuts and bolts assembling of this project based on Ideas and Images from me and the rest of the band. We went back and forth pretty intensely collaborating but some of the actual choices like fonts fell to Alex. His hard work really made this turn out the way it did!
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hey thanks for the info Tony! keep up the great work!
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Love the blog, this is great stuff...
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