On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, McHugh,Janet;Med; wrote: > > As for east coast album art, Twice Removed does look nice, as does Some > of the Erics Trip stuff, but none really have a plethora of images or > stuff which is what really what gives me a boner. > >Twice Removed I thought had one of the worst album cover of all time. It was so bad that I am under the impression that Sloan, who in my mind would never intentionally put out a cover like that, made that cover as a response to the way they were being treated as a band by teeny bopper fans and DGC execs - i.e. marketable faces, and the new hot-thing. In that context, then it is a good cover, but I am not sure that everyone who sees it will get that message (my roommates sure didn't, and would constantly mock me and sloan without ever having even listened to them).
Re: eric's trip covers+ album art. Here is a different story. I find (especially on forrever again and G st. haunting) that the artwork has the same general asthetic that the music does, and helps to give it all the same sort of homey, straight from the heart, basement 4-track feeling. No one does it quite as beautifully as they do. And I mean that. Their work has an elegant beauty to it that a lot of other lo-fi bands don't have. Even Sebadoh (who I'm sure is a big fave among e.trip) don't hit quite the same chord. They are great, yes, but quite different in approach and execution. Ok, enough preaching. -dream.
