Analysing: Marlowe's Testcard and Roja Album Covers

In today's class we analyzed many of Marlowe's Album Covers, I found this task particularly difficult as I found it hard to make the connection with the type of music these album covers would best suit.

Here are the first three covers we looked at:

For the first cover of Marlowe's debut EP “its turning me on” we can see a woman or girl leaning over looking at a device. What is interesting from this album cover is that it has been faded in with red and some of it has been left with shades of black. This establishes Marlowe's color theme. The red gives of the impression that this album cover could be for genres like rock and alternative. The second album cover "darksparklecorner" really makes you wonder what inspired such a odd picture. The exposure has clearly been raised a lot, not sure what impression the artist or designer wanted to give with this. It makes me feel like the kid is even more surprised, this again gives the impression that the type of music that came with this album might surprise or excite you. This cover has also made me think if it was staged or not, maybe the picture was taken when actually surprising this kid to get a more honest reaction. The "a day in july" album gives of a very different vibe from the last two, unlike the others it has a lot of light and depth, this makes me think that the music will be more positive and happy in general. This also makes me think that this album will have more of a world music vibe.

Here are the other three album covers we looked at:

The “Deep Breathe Fake Air” album cover is one of the few that actually feel like they have a connection or that describe each other as we can see in it a person taking a breath. With this cover Marlowe is still using red as his main color, but this time has added in a lot of light blue. He also continues only using graphic covers, this must be a part of the image he is trying to build.

"Lines" is the penultimate album cover we looked at, as seen on the picture there really isn't much color, this cover consists of mostly white and black words and lines. The lines give of the impression that this album could have songs that are techno or just more house in general. There isn't much more I get from this picture. 

"Promises I should have kept" is the final album we looked at. Immediately from looking at this cover it gives of a vibe that the music in it will have a Latin feel, such as salsa, merengue or tango. In this album like most Marlowe put or choose there to be some red, even though the general theme of the cover is black and white. It does make sense that "ROJA" is written in red as it means red in Spanish.