Album Analysis



Image & Typography

This is quite a strange album cover by Gnarls Barkley. The image of this by Gnarls Barkley is a mushroom cloud and at the top of it is lots of random things; this is in relation to the album name ST. ELSEWHERE. So when they named the album I think they thought they would try and do something completely irrelevant. The background of the cover it just white to make the picture stand out to get peoples attention.

Layout

There is not a lot to the layout of this album cover but only that they have put it in the middle of the cover to show that’s where they want your attention to be. They have the artists name in the top left hand corner because they wanted for the picture to have the main attention and the album name is on a separate line and not sure if they meant to do it but right next to the album name they have put a don’t walk sign which relates to ST. Elsewhere. I also think they want you to think that it is quite dangerous; they have a panther and a gas mask which dangerous symbols.

Colour Scheme

Not really a colour scheme in this, just that they have lot’s of different colours but mostly purple and bits of yellow and red to make it eye catching.

On the whole I think this album cover has done well on being able to catch them buyers attention with a very strange picture and lots different colour schemes used. But they have used some relevance to the album name with the picture having a big city in the fare part of the picture.