Saturday, 24 April 2010

Album cover of the Week #3

Godflesh are one of my favourite bands of all time and Pure is almost as good as it gets.

Released 18 years ago it's artwork is partial to blame for my obsession with photographing trees, cemetaries and moss. It was looking at mossy tree stumps today that made me think about the album sleeve.

The artwork was originally intended to be used on the Tiny Tears EP, it was shelved when the EP went unreleased. It is quite stunning with the gold lettering on the 12" sleeve.

The quality of sleeve artwork continues with the successor to Godflesh - Jesu and I'm sure one of those sleeves will appear here soon.

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