Does Album Artwork Matter?

Does the artwork of an album overall define the album or can the music stand on its own without the artwork. The artwork can give context to an album but do you need to see the artwork in order to understand the context of the music or can it stand on its own without it. Is the idea of album artwork going to eventually be outdated due to most people either downloading and streaming music rather than buying physical copies such as CDs or Vinyl records where the artwork is the first sing you see when you buy it. I think a lot of music can stand on its own without the album cover and doesn’t exactly define each individual song just more as a summary of the whole album, but to someone who does not completely get the message the artwork may help them receive the message.

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  1. It certainly mattered more in the LP days! I vividly remember looking at album covers in the stores, especially double albums with a gatefold sleeve, like ELO’s Out of the Blue. I think the video has come to substitute for the album cover, though.

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