Hair! Blood!

Another Hair release, another X~Ray sleeve. The title cut finds the boys in a melancholic mood, with lines about 'spilling blood in the wrong place...' The artwork ties in with the album look.

Print stats, four colour offset litho onto coated stock.

Blank Its Reject X~Ray's Vision

After a couple of stabs at producing something for the upcoming Blank Its release on Sweet Rot Records X~Ray vision had to concede defeat as we just couldn't bring the ideas of the band to fruition.

The brief for this, as described by Justin from the band is thus:
"And if we could do some version of orange and green
and black with a little white. Or not. Maybe that
could be a color combo. We're pretty into making
'BLANK ITS' kind of big and seperating the two words
or making them seperate. Can't think of enough ideas
to keep people from thinking. About BLANKETS. Some
other ideas that we use alot are blocking out people's
eyes so they are unidentifiable. And then there's the
theme of the three of us.

Then there's the songs. 'Windows Are Dirty' is kind
pissy about how people are always trying to make you
get up and do stuff. I know I need to do stuff. I know
when I want to do it. Heaven forbid I do what I want
to do. When I do it. The title is a visual about
someone telling you to go outside, you know that you
should, but you don't wanna. So as they are telling
you, you're closing the blinds and (picture yourself)
as you're looking through the blinds you can see that
the window is thick with mildew (because you didn't
get up to clean them either) and you can't see outside
anyway. What's the point of closing the....

Anywho, 'Divorce' is about when you're a kid and your
parents are splitting apart. And they are kind of
kiddy. And everything is kind of a blur. All you see
is constant rage. All they see is hurt feelings. The
whole time you're wondering why you didn't see this
coming. Or maybe you did. Who knows? Now you're just
sitting in the back of the car.

That's about as much info as I can fill you in on and
on. Maybe the song topics could be used for a cover
idea. "

The more colourful sleeve was rejected on the grounds of being 'too goofy.'

Hey, you win some, you lose some.

Pink Reason hit Brit Shit Mag!

The NME, Britain's lame music weekly, features an article on some bands that regular readers of Terminal Boredom and VOT will be familiar with! Click on image to get an enlarged view of the article!

Ho Distro Get New Logo!

The UK is often starved and neglected when it comes to top quality, prime punk and rock 'n' roll platters. Fortunately for us residents of this fair isle, Ho Distro can plug the gap in this market. Ho Distro are there for all your quality audio indecency needs, so use 'em! Oh and they've taken up a new snazzy logo too! And one more thing they are good on price!

The Impulse Int'l Get Go!

New Jersey power poppers, The Impulse Int'l, release double A dide on Derranged Records and housed in a suitable X~Ray sleeve to boot!

I thought I'd keep this sleeve quite simple, but I addded texture and offset colour craziness. I hand drew the girl and I liked the combination between the loose drawing and the use of band photo's. Thanks to Adam for hooking me up with the photo's.

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!

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.