Essays
Why Cover Art Still Carries Weight
Cover arts have been a legitimate creative medium in their own right since the LP era. For decades, they have done more than simply package music. They have…
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Essays, interviews and process notes — the arguments that do not belong to a single cover. Written by our contributors.
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Anike Flexx on Building Worlds Through Creativity
A Chat with Anike Flexx
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The problem isn't that AI makes bad cover art.
Cover art is filed under the musician’s name almost everywhere. The people who made it get a line of small type, if they get anything at all.
Conversation
Tife Jimoh on creativity, purpose, and staying true.
A Chat with Tife Jimoh
Essays
The Cover That Said It All: Burna Boy's I Told Them...
Released in 2023, I Told Them... was Burna Boy’s declaration that everything unfolding in his career was something he had always believed would happen. The…
Behind the cover
Tobe Nwigwe's Mama is Perfection
For Tobe Nwigwe, perfection looks a lot like home.
Behind the cover
Zaylevelten: "All my Ni***s hate bandits"
How Zaylevelten used his EP cover art as a statement against banditry.