Language and Perspective Remixed

Language and Perspective Remixed

The second album I chose to remix is my favorite album of all time, "Language and Perspective" by the band Bad Suns. The artwork on the original album is fairly simple, containing a red background with the multi-colored band logo juxtaposing the plainness of the red. This was the band's first release so it makes sense that they would keep their album artwork simple, playing it safe in an attempt to gauge their future audience's grasp on their theme. It is interesting as well to note that their first album artwork is completely different from their second album artwork, showing a change in the aesthetics of the band. 

I chose to use photography for this album cover merely because the original album artwork is, like Tyler the Creator's, digitally produced. I felt as though photography would be the best opportunity for me to explore alternative album artwork because it allows me to represent the themes of the album in a more realistic setting, making it more understandable to the audience. 

I chose to stick to a more neutral color scheme, contrasting the colors that are in the original album artwork which relies upon bright colors. The album title "Language and Perspective" plays off of two simple concepts so I decided to depict those using the symbols of a pair of glasses, for perspective, and a stack of books to represent language.

 A lot of times people easily look over the title of an album, often because it doesn't seem to relate much to the album itself. With this album in particular, I noticed that the title creates a theme across the songs. Songs like "Transpose" and "We Move Like The Ocean" reflect upon the concept of differing personalities creating different perspectives within relationship. "Transpose" addresses the change in perspective that comes when struggling with anxiety and how it can tremendously affect day to day life, especially if you haven't struggled with it before. "We Move Like The Ocean" shows a struggle between two people in a relationship and how they are different enough to cause them to feel as though the writer is in a shaky situation, like they're in the ocean. 

The audience for this cover would be primarily listeners of the band since they would be the ones affected by a change in aesthetics for the band.