New Ghostface Killah Album Cover Is Totally Killah
Pitchfork put up the cover image for Ghostface Killah's forthcoming The Wizard of Poetry album and it is awesome. After hearing the album's first single, "Baby," a nice hip-hip love song marred by the autotune menace, one can only hope the rest of the music is anywhere near as dope as that picture of The Yellow Brick Road leading through a field of flowers and fly honies to the gates of Emerald City.
It's a little like the grandiose, lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous covers designed by the Pen-and-Pixel company for Master P's No Limit Records in the late-90s.But somehow just a touch classier-like, umm, Ghost. In fact, dare I say it reminds me of the work of all-time album-cover-art god Roger Dean, who gave every D&D geek wet dreams with his cover-art for prog rock groups like Yes and Asia in 70s and 80s? (Cover-art that holds up considerably better than the music it came with.)Yes, I dare!
The Wizard of Emerald City cover is like Pen-and-Pixel meets Roger Dean! And for a very particular type of person, with very particular taste in album covers, I'm not sure anything could ever be better than that.
ALSO?
Yes.
This one's for Balk – http://www.amalgamdigital.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/imported/images/Big_Bear_%27Doin_Thangs%27_Album_Cover.jpg
You would totally run the streets if you had a Bear Posse.
Cover art is the little .jpg file that comes along with the BitTorrent download, right?
I have a pet theory that cover art has to be just suspension-of-dibelief-y enough to arrest the attention of potsmoke irritated red eyes. Any more than that would be — how does one say this? — de trop.