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2016-06-17 20:55:09 Post No. 65738707
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Am I the only one who doesn't like the album cover? It feels lacking, on the lower right there is some sort of animal arm extending from something else, it has no coherent body or design.
Did gira just grab a red pen and some cardboard, do a little scribbling and decide, yes, this bent monkey arm thing is just perfect?
Look at the seer, it's a black eyed dog? wolf with human teeth? We're not sure what exactly it is but we have an idea. It works with the music by being able to imagine this thing in the background, prowling and hunting.
To be kind lets you think about a little child calling out for mother while stuck in a well, or being babysitted by michael gira himself, scared of scary people.
The filth teeth give a nice accompaniment to the music, while the music entices you to flex your muscles the listener is flexing his teeth, possibly unable to move. A hint of something worse or that something could be even worse lies through out the album.
The white light rabbit is a metaphor of a forgotten childhood toy, maybe lost in an attic somewhere. Nostalgia.
Love of life has two burning rabbits, this follows the music in the album because it really is similar to the previous one. Perhaps an abusive parent destroyed these.
Soundtracks for the blind has a great cover in relation to the title and music. It's whatever you make of it, the grey circle could mean forgetting or losing something, or actually being blind which is mentioned on "how they suffer'' and the title. Something worse could be behind that circle, covered up by your blindness to the plight of those with less happy lives. Or it can be a mirror which reflects on you, you have become nothing emotionally, no success to speak of and so you cannot see even yourself.
But what does this cover have, it's there, I can't find another reason for it except for 'durr it just looks cool man!'.
