Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Love/Hate Relationship





I have a love/hate relationship with Trapped Under Ice and their cover art. I love TUI's music, but I really can't stand most of their cover art. To me, their 2007 demo pictured above is just atrocious. Why do they have their shirts off? When I first seen it I really thought it must be a joke or something, but then I opened it and said "Oh fuck....... Pitbulls......" and I just knew they were dead fucking serious. It's silly, but I'm over it. I love these recordings. Now on the other hand...




This is, in my opinion, TUI's best lay out on any of their releases (excluding test pressings). I really love this lay out, maybe its because I'm a sucker for Spoiler art? I love how that smoke or whatever is coming out of the eyes and mouth, the city scape that has a mouth under it, the red eye in the bottom corner, the knife, trashcan, random detective with the gun... it's just all together awesome. Plus a great color scheme. Please TUI just have Spoiler do your next release, I am really sick of all the emo artsy covers lately.


6 comments:

  1. As soon as I saw love/hate relationship I knew you would be talking about TUI. I feel exactly the same man. Some terrible art from these guys. Even the last LP whilst good art in its self just doesn't suit them at all.

    Great blog by the way

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  2. Thanks man! Yeah I don't know what they are thinking with some of their art choices. Maybe I'm just more "traditional" and I don't get it Haha.

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  3. Yeah. Spills over to the merch too. Some of the shirt designs from stay cold through secrets of the world were just thugly. I like the cry baby stuff though. The big kiss goodnight test press cover (cry baby cover) actually works much better than the actual art for me.

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  4. I love that cry baby cover too, definitely better than the regular cover art for BKG. This is hands down my favorite TUI cover though:

    http://www.reaper-records.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Trapped-Under-Ice-Stay-Cold-9-300x204.jpg


    so fucking funny.. The pitbull has a grill! Atleast its obvious that they're fucking around (not so obvious on the 07 demo)

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  5. It's good but is it as good as the 'Jungle Studs' cover?? Haha

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  6. Jungle studs is pretty fucking rad.... Man they are close. I wish more bands had silly limited covers.

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