Here are some of The Crimson’s Arts Board’s favorite album covers, including some reflections on the music inside.
Chromakopia, a new album by Tyler, the Creator, arrives with a striking visual aesthetic, which photographer Luis Perez ...
The curated illustrations and visuals that accompany an album are a definitive part ... “The Sugar Shack” painting used as the cover of Marvin Gaye’s I Want You; it is pretty famous and ...
By using data to judge the most critically acclaimed albums of all time, a classic rock record from 1966 was crowned modern ...
It features the belated debut of dazzlingly inventive former Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels, who has been a Cure member for ...
Perhaps the most infamous case was over the hit song Blurred Lines - in which the family of Marvin Gaye accused Robin ... streams down their faces. "My [album] cover was my original idea," Love ...
The advert, soundtracked by Marvin Gaye's I Heard It ... over from her third studio album True Blue - while she provided backing vocals. Kamen's follow-up track, a cover of the Four Tops' Loving ...
But for an industry that invented sampling and cover songs, its relationship with IP is still ... of which there is plenty of precedent in the music industry. In 2015, the Marvin Gaye estate ...
Jesus Piece,' XOXOK's lush debut out this month, represents Keenan Jenkin's full embrace of live R&B and soul.
Yet the film, like the album, is also a meditation ... One such moment happens during the cover of Nightshift, The Commodores’ famous 1985 paean to the departed Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ...
Critics who need classifications labelled it neo soul: classic 1970s grooves (Marvin Gaye, Ann Peebles ... with their album The Score, driven by their cover of Killing Me Softly with His Song ...
It made her the first rapper to win a Grammy for Album of the Year ... inspired by musical heroes including Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and Nina Simone – still enormously influential.