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Album cover of Nostrum Grocers by Nostrum Grocers mirrors the album’s instinctive, inward-facing philosophy through abstract, biomorphic forms that resemble organs, tools, and fragments of perception. The soft geometry and muted yet uneasy color palette suggest vulnerability, birth, and transformation, echoing themes of origin, betrayal, care, and survival found in titles like circumcision is the first betrayal and peace is the opposite of security. The painterly style resists clarity, reinforcing improvisation and lived experience over fixed meaning. Artwork contributions by renowned painter Kennady Bob align the visual language with the duo’s raw, moment-to-moment creative process.

https://nostrumgrocers.bandcamp.com/album/nostrum-grocers

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Album cover of Space & Time EP by astralblak unfolds as a dense cosmic collage where ancestral memory, futurism, and street culture converge. Central masked faces float within a cosmic portal, suggesting layered identities and alternate lifelines, echoing tracks like Another Life and Wide Awake. Surrounding figures, instruments, and symbols imply ritual, resistance, and funk as survival language across dimensions.

The saturated purples, yellows, and celestial motifs frame astral funk as both spiritual transmission and urban signal, aligning with trumpet-led propulsion and timeless groove. Graffiti-inflected surrealism bridges pyramids, boomboxes, and stargazing into a single continuum. Cover art by legendary graffiti writer Ewok MSK AWR HM reinforces lineage, sound, and space collapsing into one plane.

https://astralblak.bandcamp.com/album/space-time-ep

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Album cover of Ancient Source by Tommy Martini centers a radiant golden sun face encircled by zodiac symbols and stars, floating over a tropical horizon. The imagery suggests cosmic cycles, ancestral rhythm, and timeless guidance, matching the album’s emphasis on soulful grooves and nostalgic warmth. Palm trees and saturated colors evoke late-night lounge energy and West Coast serenity, echoing tracks like Martini’s Lounge and Sweet Memories. The polished retro aesthetic frames funk, soul, and introspection as an inherited source rather than a trend.

https://sicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-source

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Album cover of A Delusional Guide for the Disillusioned by Kemastry X Jazz T presents a surreal parable. Figures sit calmly on oversized red mushrooms, reading, fishing, observing, suspended above nothing. The mushrooms echo altered perception, while everyday actions suggest normalized illusion. This aligns with tracks like Mind Control and Hamster Wheel, framing modern life as passive participation in manipulation. The watercolor, hand-drawn style softens the critique, contrasting innocence with apocalyptic undertones. Artwork by Stilts reinforces the tension between grounding wisdom and drifting delusion.

https://bootrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-delusional-guide-for-the-disillusioned

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Commissioned piece, a sketch and final drawing for a new album of Coldlike Oracle

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Album cover of Letters From The Brink by Mercury Renegades presents a weathered skull pierced by a ram horn, its single vivid eye locked in alarm against a rusted, comic-stained backdrop. The gritty collage style echoes underground zines and metal-rap hybrids, suggesting survival, mutation, and obsessive focus at the edge of collapse.

The horn implies defiance and pagan force, while the eye signals hyperawareness, fitting tracks like “Scissors Always Wins,” “No Vacancy,” and the title cut, which read as dispatches from psychological brinkmanship. “La Llorona” adds folklore grief, grounding chaos in myth. Art direction feels DIY and abrasive; no specific cover artist is credited beyond Wolf Rayet and Dahhm Life.

https://dahhmlife.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-brink

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Album cover of Parallax Vision by Akword Actwrite and Dahhm Life presents a symmetrical, psychedelic composition centered on a multi-faced head crowned with stacked eyes and sacred geometry. The repeated eyes echo the album’s framing tracks Point A and Point B, reinforcing parallax as shifting perception rather than fixed truth. The green, violet, and gold palette suggests consciousness expansion, aligning with tracks like Liberating, Return to Deliverance, and Combine Forces, where collective awareness and inner clarity emerge through collaboration. The style draws from visionary and esoteric art traditions, blending hip-hop’s introspection with metaphysical symbolism. The cover artist is not officially credited.

https://akwordactwrite.bandcamp.com/album/parallax-vision

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Album cover of Latrinalia by Rob Sonic, featuring artwork by Eben Kling. The imagery reflects the album's gritty, dystopian atmosphere through a surrealist, cosmic horror lens. A massive, bioluminescent blue skull serves as a temple or portal, spewing purple tentacles that suggest a world consumed by chaotic, alien forces. This mirrors the "Hammer Of Chaos" and the "unsure future" mentioned in the description, blending the anatomical with the otherworldly to represent a crumbling social fabric.

The "river of blood" and tiny, armed figures walking toward the maw symbolize a collective march into an industrial, grim reality, echoing tracks like "March Of Dimes." The vibrant, neon-lit palette contrasts with the dark, "gritty" themes, capturing Sonic’s signature blend of sharp wit and startling social commentary. It visualizes the "Latrinalia"—traditionally bathroom graffiti—as a grand, decaying monument to human expression in a world that is both "soothing" and "startling."

https://skypimps.bandcamp.com/album/latrinalia

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Top 9 Albums I've been shoving down my earholes over the last month.

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A grid of the covers of the nine albums that I've listened to the most this last month.

Album Cover of Desayuno by VH$

The album cover for Desayuno presents a vibrant, top-down "flat lay" of a breakfast table that serves as a visual index for the tracklist. The artwork features a literal feast of items corresponding to the songs, such as "Huevos Rancheros," "Aguacate," and "Naranja," all surrounding a vinyl record labeled with the artist's name, "VH$." The inclusion of "Mota" (cannabis) and "Adios Cigarros" is visually represented through a blunt and cigarette imagery, suggesting a morning ritual that blends traditional nourishment with counterculture habits. This collage-style illustration highlights a specific lifestyle where cultural staples like "Abuelita" chocolate and "Pan Dulce" coexist with modern urban elements, effectively framing the album as a sensory exploration of a single morning. By placing a record at the center of the meal, the artist positions the music itself as a core ingredient of this daily "Desayuno," implying that these sounds are as essential to their routine as the food pictured.

https://vhscu.bandcamp.com/album/desayuno

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Album cover of Mindstate by Bad FX

The black-and-white, hand-drawn aesthetic of the Mindstate cover conveys a raw, underground energy that prioritizes mental depth over commercial polish. The central figure—a towering, multi-eyed deity or manifestation emerging from the clouds—symbolizes a heightened level of consciousness, which aligns perfectly with tracks like "Devine Magnificance," "Wisdom," and the title track "Mindstate." Below this spiritual presence, a city sits in flames, suggesting that this mental clarity is forged in the chaos of urban life or a "War Of Words." The two profiles facing away from each other represent the dualities of the human experience, while the clasped hands in prayer or meditation emphasize a grounding spiritual force amidst the destruction. This visual narrative of finding intellectual and spiritual legacy within a burning environment reflects the gritty storytelling found in "Pen Traffic" and the "Teefin' Tony" series, where the "Mindstate" acts as both a shield and a source of power.

https://badfx.bandcamp.com/album/mindstate

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Album cover of Blood Music by Dead Celebrity Status

The album cover for Blood Music serves as a grim deconstruction of Hollywood artifice, centered on a corrupted version of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star. By replacing the traditional celebrity emblem with a manhole cover featuring a blood-red skull, the artwork suggests that beneath the "star" status lies something visceral, dark, and perhaps discarded.

The heavy blood splatter and grimy, weathered texture reinforce the title's literal and metaphorical "blood," implying that fame is a violent or parasitic exchange. This theme is mirrored in the tracklist, where songs like "In This Day & Age," "Somebody Turn the Lights Out," and "In My Backyard" hint at an exploration of the shadows behind the spotlight and the personal cost of public identity.

The collaboration with figures like Dave Navarro and Bif Naked further grounds the project in an alternative, gritty rock-rap aesthetic that matches this visual rebellion against polished celebrity culture.

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Album cover of From Mental To Reality by William Tycoon Russ. This artwork depicts the conversion of internal thought into tangible sound, showing an artist at a workstation where colorful musical notes physically emerge from a beat machine. The gritty, graffiti-inspired style mirrors the DIY evolution of this instrumental project from simple beats to a polished album. Vibrant colors against a weathered background symbolize the diverse range of tracks, from "Super Funk" to "Reflect," illustrating the artist’s technical mastery in bringing his mental vision into a high-quality reality.

https://carvingshedstudios.bandcamp.com/album/from-mental-to-reality

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