Nice video! I think good minimalist album art implies a lot of confidence that the music will speak for itself, or cannot be reduced to images. Which is why landmarks like the White Album and Brat pull it off so well, but if it’s just another typical album for that artist it comes off as a gimmick or lazy. Sable will kind of have to justify having a cover like that.
brat- great album cover because it looks like an old aim buddy icon imo 'Sable' refers to an artist that deliberately keeps themselves depressed so they have feelings to pull from. It's also referred to as 'staying in the dark'. We know that the album cover is a not-quite-pink, possibly flesh-toned square, surrounded by black. I think that's the idea. The most basic, naked representation of a person, flesh skin, surrounded by darkness. Compositionally, I think it echoes the 22, A Million cover, which was absolutely loaded with graphics and imagery. So if 22AM represented the maximalist Bon Iver/Justin Vernon, then this is what you get when you take all of that away; just a man, and his darkness. This album is also fairly stripped down, so I think the minimalist contrast to 22AM is reflective of the music too.
Nice video! I think good minimalist album art implies a lot of confidence that the music will speak for itself, or cannot be reduced to images. Which is why landmarks like the White Album and Brat pull it off so well, but if it’s just another typical album for that artist it comes off as a gimmick or lazy. Sable will kind of have to justify having a cover like that.
brat- great album cover because it looks like an old aim buddy icon imo
'Sable' refers to an artist that deliberately keeps themselves depressed so they have feelings to pull from. It's also referred to as 'staying in the dark'.
We know that the album cover is a not-quite-pink, possibly flesh-toned square, surrounded by black. I think that's the idea. The most basic, naked representation of a person, flesh skin, surrounded by darkness. Compositionally, I think it echoes the 22, A Million cover, which was absolutely loaded with graphics and imagery. So if 22AM represented the maximalist Bon Iver/Justin Vernon, then this is what you get when you take all of that away; just a man, and his darkness. This album is also fairly stripped down, so I think the minimalist contrast to 22AM is reflective of the music too.