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A house in Golden Beach in Miami with a (really) bearded guy leaning on a flourishing palm.

“Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through,
laugh along with the common people,
laugh along even though they’re laughing at you,
and the stupid things that you do.
Because you think that poor is cool.”

A Dirty Projectors’ album cover and blue and red brush-stroke-like shapes. Have we seen this somewhere else already?
On their Slaves’ Graves and Ballads’ cover art, actually.

The debut album by the British reggae band UB40, Signing Off, was released back in 1980. Being the beginning of Margaret Thatcher’s era as a Prime Minister, it was perhaps appropriate to have an exact copy of an Unemployment Benefit Attendance Card as the album cover.

Kanye West’s embarrassing gaffes on live national television and reputation for being pretty self-centred are seemingly eclipsing his artistic talent. He is in fact the top rapper-producer in the industry and a somewhat underrated visionary who throws creative curveballs. Case in point? His 2007 album Graduation and commissioning Takashi Murakami to completely reinvent his trademark bruin.

What happens when reality rears its head and the certainty of love morphs into something sour? A good number of things: hatred, fury, sadness, contempt, all rabid but equally intense emotional forces. The inner turmoil is beautifully interpreted by John Gilsenen of iwantdesign into the defaced family photo found on Tracey Thorn’s new album cover, Love And Its Opposite.