Gorillaz are the name of this band and they have used strange cartoon images to reflect their genre in an abstract and unordinary way, the cartoon images themselves actually resemble a family of gorillas slightly. The target audience for this band are teenagers. This album cover has an obvious masthead and follows the conventions of a standard Music album with its title and main image on the front cover.

The Chemical Brothers are an up-beat and modern band and I believe the album cover reflects this. The Title of the album cover is obvious and bold as they have used large, colourful, capital letters.

'The Beatles' have a warm and energetic album cover. The Album cover is full of life, it shows the Artist and Album name and all four members of the band in the colour red emphasizing their presence. As the album name is 'Love' it would be out of context to use bland life-less colours. Yellow, Red and Orange create a good mixture of easy-to-see, obvious and welcoming colours making the album cover's artwork easy on the eye yet interesting and original. The name of the album suggests that this is not 'The Beatles' first album, they were a great band that were known for experimenting with their music and lyrics, thus pushing the musical boundaries. The language on the CD cover relates to the imagery that is used in it's style and theme. 

With some of the techniques 'Pink Floyd' used in the making of this album it rapidly became one of the most ground-braking albums ever made. One of the most striking features of this album in itself is the art-work as it is so plain and ordinary, yet openly intriguing and somewhat original. The triangular-prism reflects light off at an un-expected angle therefore drawing the viewer in and giving an irregular theme to the cover. There is no real obvious masthead on this Album cover due to the only writing being obscure and small. 'The Dark Side of The Moon' retains a dark, plain colour theme mirroring that of the actual dark side of the Moon (the Moon being mysterious and unexplored).  

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As you can see 'elbow' have used an abstract design for their album cover. This design is very different to the styles other bands use due to the genre of music. The main image is simple but striking with deformed human like images, bland colours and an old city like theme. The main image appears to be something of similar shape to a rubix cube, however, the distinct lack of colour completely contrasts with the normal rubix cube thing. The Font also contrasts with the image as it is fairly neat and quite normal. It doesn't appear as though the picture has been carefully designed, the visual effect transmits a juvenile theme to the CD cover. There is a retro Mise-en-scene.