Album Cover Analysis 'Boys Like Girls' by Boys Like Girls

Image & Typography

Again, as with 'The Mouse and the Mask' by Danger Doom, this album has a very simplistic image and typography that works well for it. The title itself is a simple and plain font that actually leaves no spaces between the words of the artist's name but instead chooses to differentiate them by make the middle word unbolded. The image is of a cloud dripping what appears to be different colours onto a rectangle - at least I think that's what it is, but it could also be something completely different. The layers of colours work well for it, considering they make it stand out completely from the background, but I'm not entirely sure how the picture relates to the album, unless it's to do with one of the songs. It's very abstract.

The background itself tries to frame the whole thing by making it a gradient that darkens around the edges, but I don't think it really works because of how little difference there is between the colours being faded between.

Layout

Again like Danger Doom's album, this album simply consists of the artist's name (which is also the name of the album) above an image, but the simplicity of it works pretty well to attract your attention to it. I'd say one of the main problems with it though is that it doesn't look unique enough. Thought I've not seen an image quite like this, the general style it's gone for is something I've seen countless times and just wouldn't attract me to pick up the album if I saw it.

Colour Scheme

The colour scheme, in my opinion, was fairly well chosen. The variety of colours in the logo image really attract the attention to it, especially compared to the background and artist name, but really the plain, dull colours of the background and title put me off a lot from this. Looking at the first mockup album cover I made, I can tell that's probably one of the biggest problems to do with that too, and should probably go a background that really frames the cover properly.