Album covers

I have decided to do some further research into album covers to get an accurate idea about what they usually have on the front. Despite my research of Lower Than Atlantis' album cover, i have found that almost all rock/indie bands never have the band members themselves on the cover. this is probably due to the fact that generally in the rock genre, their popularity and brand are not focused on their image, but more on the music itself. 

All of the covers, despite not having a relation to the artists in terms of appearance, the photos always have strong links to the album title or the title of a song on the album.

The Killers, a very popular band, never feature themselves on the front cover of their albums, this is because they have a very distinctive theme of artwork that is on all of their covers and so their appearance is irrelevant to selling their music as they have already established an image. this suggests that they have no need for them to appear on their covers.

 Additionally, You Me At Six, a popular British rock band have also never featured on the cover of any of their albums. They are probably most similar to my artist as they are of the same nationality, music genre and fan base and so their marketing techniques would be similar. I can also take inspiration from this album as i like the layout of the song titles on the back being in the middle and also the continuation of the image from the front to back. 

I have also found that the disks belonging to the albums tend to be quite plain. The typical design of them is that they are a plain colour, usually monochrome and they feature the name of the album and often the band. This simplicity is typical of the genre as album artwork tends not to be very extravagant but they also continue the themes and colour schemes of the rest of the album artwork.