Album Cover Analysis

This album cover is by the band The Script and is titled “Science and faith”. On this album cover unlike some the main focus is the name of the band, this could be because the cover doesn’t include an image which relates to or is the band themselves, so the name needs to be clear so people quickly recognize who’s album it is. The name of the band and title of the album is black but the rest of the colour scheme seems to be as if it is a sepia photograph, sepia is always related to old times, which could relate to the band going back to their roots in the music. The image is off two separate peoples holding hands tightly, and it seems to be a man and woman’s hand. The scripts music throughout the years has always been focused on relationships, both coming together and falling apart, this image makes us feel as if the album may be about trust and people coming together and could relate to the title having “faith” in eachother. The hands seems to be off people off different colour, emphasising how this music really is for everyone.



This album cover is by the artist Tinie Tempah and is titled “Discovery”. Tinie Tempah has recently become a huge star and this album cover seems to relate to feeling “on top of the world” He is the main focus of the cover, with what seems to be the world in his arms. The colour scheme seems to be black and white, but the black background seems to appear to look like the night sky or space. Making Tinie seem “out of this world”, emphasised by the glow surrounding the image of him and brings about the idea for us that his music is going to be futuristic, new and different and with the light above him gives us off the feel that it is his time to shine. If we look at the name of the album, Discovery works very well with this cover , because of the futuristic feel and the fact that Tinie has hit his stride in the music industry and will now feel like his been discovered. In the image Tinie is sitting with his hands locked together leaning slightly forward, bringing things or people together through his music, but the sunglasses he wears may seem that he is still holding something back so his music may not be personal like other artists. Overall this album cover works well for this upcoming artist.



This album cover is titled “Relapse” and is the music of Eminem. The key focus of this album cover is the large image of the artist, which emphasises what a powerful artist he is in the music industry, he needs no gimmicks to sell his records. This image is put together using a variety of drug like pills, which could lead us to feel as though this album could in a way like medication ease the pain, however Eminem’s life has been surrounded by drugs and many of his lyrics relate to his past present and future and therefore the pills could relate purely to the lyrics. The colour scheme is mainly red and black both dominant powerful colours, the use of the red portrays the anger that Eminem brings across in his music. If you look at the image carefully half is red, but half is white, showing us that there may be more than just anger in Eminem’s music, as white is a pure, calm colour. This album cover is simple, Eminem has made his mark in the music industry for being a artist purely about his songs and nothing else, this gives us a clear insight into relapse the album.