There's a Storm Brewing

Art and music go so well together. They are like two conjoined twins that are too proud to be torn apart. But nothing's more brilliant than Album art. The size of a record is just too perfect to display beautiful artwork. It's not just all about the music anymore, a beautiful cover can sell a record just as well as a strong voice. I find no greater pleasure than listening to a great album and just staring at the album cover blankly trying to conjure up what the band or the cover artist was thinking about when they reached the conclusion to the completion of the then thought to be greatest album ever to be recorded on God's green earth.

So album art has been around since the beginning of albums. Around the '60's is when they just didn't feel the need to keep putting the artists face on the cover anymore. Something more surreal would be better. To keep the buyers not just interested in the artist but the art as well. The greatest surreal album artist of all time in my personal opinion and plenty of others as well has got to be Storm Thorgerson.

The man who did great albums for bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Peter Gabrial, Muse, Audioslave, Paul Macartney, Steve Miller, Styx, Yes, etc.

He was the main player in the graphic art group called Hipgnosis. From Houses Of The Holy to the iconic Dark Side Of The Moon they created amazing artwork that has been regarded as mind blowing by millions.
Storm artwork has been displayed in gallery's all over the world.