Digipak Analysis'

The Kills - Blood Pressures By Daniel Mcgovern

This front cover shows the two band members Alison and Jamie and has the band name across the bottom in red. I'd say it challenges typical indie band front covers as it doesn't have the album title on the front cover. Also Indie bands rarely show themselves on the front cover as they don't sell their cd's with sex appeal. I'd say the two band members are on the cover as it goes with the video. 'Satellite' which is the second song on the album.

The front of the CD looks like a vinyl, this goes with the front of the album as the band are trying to look old fashioned. This is also linked with Satellite   because they're driving an old fashioned car around in the video and dressed old fashioned.

The back of the CD shows a drawing of the front covers image. We can see the the song titles and numbers of each track which is basic for a CD case. We can also see the record company logo for Domino Records at the bottom quite small, followed by the rest of the small print. The side of the CD shows the bands name and the title of the CD.

The inside of the CD shows Alison Mosshart with a leopard around her back, the image has been edited. I believe this challenges the usual indie band covers as it's as if Alison is placing herself out there for men to gaze over. You could also the image is meant to be like an old fashioned painting.

This image shows a boxer, the photo looks old this would once again go with the old fashioned look of the album. Random doodles are on the inlay as well making it more arty which is typical with the indie genre. Making it random they have put a fortune cookie fortune on there as well.







Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones By Hananh Liddle

With 'indie' bands, a lot of the time the album covers and artwork are always very arty and colourful, this is often to show their creative ideas. More often than not 'indie' artists never show their face on the front of their advertisements or products as they are not there to sell through sex appeal. With the album being named 'Show Your Bones' the image of this album cover could be reference to a rib cage or perhaps could show three 'Y' letters to stand for 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs'. Due to the bold and contrasting colours of the red, purple and yellow the image really stands out. For the consumer to be able to recognise the band, the boldness and the white font, of the bands name and album title, has been used to stand out against the other bold colours.

The CD of the album is the same as the front cover with the colours, the only difference is the way the CD image has a scratch effect. The CD also stands out very brightly against any other CD's as normally the colour is not such an issue on the CD itself. This CD along the bottom also contains the record label of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and also shows the tracklist on this CD.

The back of the CD cover shows three flags which is the same image on the front of the CD cover and also the CD itself. It also shows images of snow and sky. Here we can also see the small print which includes the record label and then the track list is shown in bigger writing again. The font of the track list is the same colour font as the front cover which also contrasts against the blue snow but also falls in nice within the image of the snow, as if the writing is droplets of snow.