Tame Impala are an Australian surfer band, the band came to prominance in 2010 and released this album, Innerspeaker. I believe that album art is not only the packaging for the music but reflects the genre and the bands characteristics, enabling audiences to connect to their style before even listening to the music.
This is evident in their first album, Innerspeaker. Using Leif Podhajsky's artwork of the Great Smokey Mountains in the National Park. Podhajsky has used a simple scenic image and edited it using a 'Droste effect', thus creating a psychedelic feel using symmetry and repetition, reflecting the bands genre.
The effect is also used in Pink Floyd's album artwork, Ummagumma.
I am defintely going to try this effect out on my images and see how they turn out.
The surreal nature of this cover art links strongly to the surreal nature of the effects and transitions you've used in your music video. The cover art is strongly psychedelic thus referencing bands like The Pink Floyd. Psychedelic art has had something of a renaissance because of the rave culture and development of digital technology.
ReplyDeleteEffective research and commentary Ruby, keep up the good work.