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14 November 2007

The Hair Turning Japanese





These Leeds based youngsters have gone and recorded a full length CD! X~Ray Vision worked closely with Neil Clark, the bands keyboard player, to create this photomotage. I pushed for a colour scheme that included a silver litho, this enhances the shiny, disco element of the music. I guess you could say The Hair are West Yorkshire's answer to The Rapture, what with funk filled bass lines, jerky guitar spits and the odd clonk of a cowbell.

This is a Japanese only release on the Kurofune Records label. More info can be found on the bands website.

The Japanese have gone all out on the marketing, with in store displays in Tower Records! I guess this is my most polished and fancy shmancy work to date!

07 November 2007

Manhattan Love Suicides Whip Out 3"




The MLS are busy at it again, this time releasing a three track 3" CD on the Cloudberry Records label, purveyors of the sound of jangly guitars and based in sunny Miami, Florida. Sounds lovely.

For this little project I enlisted the help of Kimberley Scott, she provided the initial illustration of the gun toting girl. I 'scuzzed' up the overall design with elements of ink rolled texture, comic book dots and the like.