Wilco (the album) artwork

[uwmryan]

Wonder if Mader's even knows?

[Edie]

I like it. I won't mistake it for anything else, which is all I really care about anyway.

 

Does the camel represent VW? It's what it looks like to me

[Sir Stewart]

Does the camel represent VW? It's what it looks like to me

I think if they wanted to represent VW on the cover, they would've just put Hitler there.

[Analogman]

son volt takes their music way too seriously.

 

There is something to be said for traditional rock values.

[dondoboy]

There is something to be said for traditional rock values.

Isn't that what rock and roll is supposed to ruin?

[Gobias Industries]

I think if they wanted to represent VW on the cover, they would've just put Hitler there.

 

I would post a picture of Hitler facing the camera during a speech with his arms up so the shape made by his arms and head forms a 'W,' but I am having no luck.

[bleedorange]

the typeface is Fraktur for those that want to start using it on everything they own.

 

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i'm done being a smarty pants. for now.

 

 

side note: they used an alternate W / altered the W to get rid of some of the detail at the top of the letter that is standard in the font.

 

 

I downloaded the typeface from dafont.com. It appears to be Moderne Fraktur. At least, the W seems to match what Wilco has used.

[The High Heat]

My favorite Wilco album cover/album art has always been Being There, which is still my favorite Wilco album.

I'm with you on both counts.

 

I was hoping the new cover would be colorful, as most of their covers are basically two-toned, but I'm not too thrilled about this one. Maybe if the guys were having a good time at the table and having a very bored camel around was normal for them, then maybe this would be funny. It makes too much sense that the party would clear out when a camel crashes it. The smell alone!

I'm wondering that after spending the last three days swamped in the lawsuit thead if we aren't suffering from post-dramatic distress syndrome.

[Guest Hollinger.]

Wilco is taking their music less seriously because they put a camel on the album cover? Seriously, man... take a deep breath. Step away from the keyboard for a while.

[rhino4evr]

son volt takes their music serious enough. prince takes his music WAY to seriously. i'm afraid, wilco is taking their music less seriously.

 

Please listen to the album before writing it off. No one cares that you dislike the album art in the first place.

[Moss]

I like the fact that Tweedy and company seem to be in a really good place now that they can put an album cover like that out. It makes me smile just looking at it and that's enough for me. Long live the camel.

 

[SeattleC]

Maybe it's not really the album cover, and just a joke on the Pabst Theater 2 night stay.

[TCP]

I approve.

[OOO]

Brian Wilson took music very seriously.

 

[Jesusetc84]

I just can't get over it...a camel.

[Lemsky]

. She looks familiar to me as well.

 

--Mike.

 

a girl ?

there's only a camel

[ditty]

Spencer's hit the nail on the head:

 

http://spencertweedy.com/

 

My dad’s band’s (Wilco) new album artwork was released online today. From what I’ve read, people are really liking it, aside from the few obnoxious, negative jerks on the internetz. I think if I’m going to start reading comments (usually I just read people’s posts) I better get used to the few – or not so few – negative ones. It’s just kind of hard to believe that someone would take time out of their lives to knowingly insult someone else’s work. If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say it.” And, if you do have a bad opinion, just share it with your friend. Or at least say it a nice way. Oy vey.

[Analogman]

Isn't that what rock and roll is supposed to ruin?

 

Joke man, joke.

[Analogman]

Spencer's hit the nail on the head:

 

http://spencertweedy.com/

 

My dad

[isadorah]

I downloaded the typeface from dafont.com. It appears to be Moderne Fraktur. At least, the W seems to match what Wilco has used.

 

excellent. all the variations of Fraktur I have had a different W. very cool that you found an even closer cut!!!

[lost highway]

I think the idea that something that is not solemn signals a lack of seriousness about art..... that's just pretentious. Ever watch a Bunuel or a Godard movie? Those guys can often be seen to make movies that are absurd, playful, even pointlessly bizarre, but they are craftsmen. Look at Franz Freakin Kafka. His entire anthology rests somewhere a little left of solemn and serious, but he wrote some seriously crafted books.

 

This kind of veers back to the idea that great art can only be a product of intense torment (which has a bizarre Catholic s&m kind of value system). I think many times it has been, but that can not set aside the two core elements of creative productivity: the mind at play, and hard work.

 

Maybe I'm a little off topic, but can I say again that the is an exceptionally well taken photograph, with great colors. I think the people that are pissed off that it's a sign about a lack of seriousness, seriously couldn't take that photograph so well.

[Sir Stewart]

Brian Wilson took music very seriously.

 

 

[theashtraysays]

This is the first thing I thought of when I saw the cover :

 

there will be tables and chairs

there'll be pony rides and dancing bears

there'll even be a band

 

Camel rides. Brilliant. But apparently, the band split.

[Clint09eastwood]

There is room for criticism, but as I have said before, too much negatively is too much. I actually know of a message board that got removed due to some similar posts/ongoing BS.

 

Amen, I personally can't see how someone can't love this artwork. It's awesome, and Wilco does love us....baby.

[mpolak21]

Spencer's hit the nail on the head:

 

http://spencertweedy.com/

 

My dad’s band’s (Wilco) new album artwork was released online today. From what I’ve read, people are really liking it, aside from the few obnoxious, negative jerks on the internetz. I think if I’m going to start reading comments (usually I just read people’s posts) I better get used to the few – or not so few – negative ones. It’s just kind of hard to believe that someone would take time out of their lives to knowingly insult someone else’s work. If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say it.” And, if you do have a bad opinion, just share it with your friend. Or at least say it a nice way. Oy vey.

 

 

It's got to be tough being an internet savy kid of someone relatively well known in this era. I'd be freaking out over every remotely negative comment I saw, and the album cover reactions have been tame compared to some things I've read about the Bennett lawsuit or Sky Blue Sky. Hopefully he'll learn not to take any of it to heart, and he might not want to search the pitchfork review archives for his dad's band past Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

 

--Mike