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there was a lot blurry images recently with Smash and Hotspot the cover for Hotspot looks more like something from Nine Inch Nails than PSBjules wrote: Mon 04 Dec 2023, 8:49 pmFirst reading a review then listening to any new thing coming. I wonder what the design will be. They did a lot of geometric things as well as a rather wise cover for hotspot.jasonjohn wrote: Mon 04 Dec 2023, 3:36 am OK time to start planning how I will listen lol
Ignore any leaks? Ignore the inevitable promotional single? While running? With my eyes closed in a dark room alone? Naked? At a listening party? In the bath? On a roller coaster?
This time what could it be ?
Disco 5!ype wrote: Tue 05 Dec 2023, 8:52 am They've teased an unreleased version of Always on my mind on Instagram. After the unreleased version of Being boring, I wonder if we'll get a bonus disc with updated mixes of old songs.
Neil has revealed in an interview lately that "Disco 5" will include all the remixes they had done for other artists (Noel Gallagher, Claptone, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Weller, Sleaford Mods). The album has been compiled already. It's just a question of logistics when to release it.
He did? When was that? It is great that they have this series to release ad-hoc stuffzukunft wrote: Tue 05 Dec 2023, 12:58 pmNeil has revealed in an interview lately that "Disco 5" will include all the remixes they had done for other artists (Noel Gallagher, Claptone, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Weller, Sleaford Mods). The album has been compiled already. It's just a question of logistics when to release it.
Classic Pop from earlier this year when they were on the cover.Tom Angel wrote:He did? When was that? It is great that they have this series to release ad-hoc stuffzukunft wrote: Tue 05 Dec 2023, 12:58 pmNeil has revealed in an interview lately that "Disco 5" will include all the remixes they had done for other artists (Noel Gallagher, Claptone, Wolfgang Tillmans, Paul Weller, Sleaford Mods). The album has been compiled already. It's just a question of logistics when to release it.
You read my mind.Dog wrote: Wed 06 Dec 2023, 10:59 am I’d quite like something that uses portrait photography. They haven’t really used shots of themselves which aren’t purposefully blurred or tiny on a non-compilation album cover since Behaviour.
They moved from "Smash Hits" to "Factory Records" album covers long long ago, as you point out. It's unlikely they'll move back.They haven’t really used shots of themselves which aren’t purposefully blurred or tiny on a non-compilation album cover since Behaviour.
I hadn’t, but yes I guess that’s kind of what I was thinking. If the album is “more, autobiographical, looking back” something like that - or even old photography - would resonate. The Alternative inner sleeve portraits show them as pop’s older statesmen, even if it was 30 years ago.Spittingcat wrote:They moved from "Smash Hits" to "Factory Records" album covers long long ago, as you point out. It's unlikely they'll move back.They haven’t really used shots of themselves which aren’t purposefully blurred or tiny on a non-compilation album cover since Behaviour.
But, having said that, have you seen the cover of Vince Clarke's solo album? That's very striking. They could do something like that.
I'd like to see a thick booklet with them posing at different places with the Impulse theme running through. Impulse must be the name of the albumDog wrote: Wed 06 Dec 2023, 2:51 pmI hadn’t, but yes I guess that’s kind of what I was thinking. If the album is “more, autobiographical, looking back” something like that - or even old photography - would resonate. The Alternative inner sleeve portraits show them as pop’s older statesmen, even if it was 30 years ago.Spittingcat wrote:They moved from "Smash Hits" to "Factory Records" album covers long long ago, as you point out. It's unlikely they'll move back.They haven’t really used shots of themselves which aren’t purposefully blurred or tiny on a non-compilation album cover since Behaviour.
But, having said that, have you seen the cover of Vince Clarke's solo album? That's very striking. They could do something like that.
I like the hotspit sleeve pics, it brings some colors and a bit of warmth. The only thing i miss is the lyrics, the last studio album without lyrics was Very.Nicholas wrote: Mon 04 Dec 2023, 11:16 pm The design is as exciting to me as the music these days and, yeah, I didn’t mind the Hotspot cover but the way it was carried through the rest of the sleeve didn’t do it for me.
I kind of appreciated the ‘title and artist credit in tiny lettering in the corner like a magazine photo caption’ thing and it was sort of nice that all the photography was theirs, but the photos were not very interesting and felt like they had very little consistent through-line except ‘WE ARE BERLIN’. Although the Burning the Heather sleeve was kind of great.