Best & Worst Artwork of 2017 Forum User Poll

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Some great contributions to the Best & Worst Artwork of 2017 threads over the last year, ranging from the beautiful and the creative to the plain rubbish and the eye-gougingly ugly. So, who was ultimately the worst of the worst and the best of the best?

I’ve made a shortlist of twenty from each category and thumbnails for reference (expand if too small) . These are largely taken from those two threads, but given that we were happier mining the shitty seam, I’ve also added a few other good ones (imho) from last year to the best shortlist.

One vote for each. Votes are not intended to be a reflection of the quality of the music within, just a skin-deep assessment of the artwork. Polls to run for a couple of weeks or until voting dries up.

A winner will then be declared from each category.

#2

2017 Worst Artwork: Nominations

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  • Cabbage Young, Dumb & Full Of
  • Drynx – Horse Matrix
  • GBV – August By Cake
  • Great White - Full Circle
  • Jesus & Mary Chain– Damage & Joy
  • Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now
  • Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud
  • LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
  • Liars - TFCF
  • Maroon 5 – Red Pill Blues
  • Nickelback – Feed The Machine
  • Paramore - After Laughter
  • Pharmakon – Contact
  • Ringo Starr – Give More Love
  • Take That - Wonderland
  • The Horrors - V
  • The Knife – Live At Terminal 5
  • The White West – Riff Raff
  • Terror Jr – Bop City 3: The Girl Who Cried Purple
  • Wyclef Jean - Inspired By

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2017 Best Artwork: Nominations

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  • Aaron Dilloway – The Gag File
  • Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
  • Besnard Lakes – Are The Divine Wind
  • Chaos Moon - Eschaton Memoire
  • Christian Fitness – Slap Bass Hunks
  • DVNE – Asheran
  • From The Mouth of the Sun – Hymn Binding
  • Half Japanese – Hear The Lions Roar
  • Horsebeach – Beauty & Sadness
  • Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now
  • Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now
  • Mogwai – Every Country’s Sun
  • Moon Duo – Occult Architecture - Vol 1
  • Novella – Change of State
  • Phoebe Bridges – Stranger In The Alps
  • Reflections of a Floating World – Elder
  • Richard Dawson - Peasant
  • The National – Sleep Well Beast
  • Thundercat – Drunk
  • WaqWaq Kingdom – Shinsekai

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#4

How do I vote for kasabian for best?

#5

It just missed out in the shortlisting I’m afraid, but please rest assured that it occupied all of the positions between 21-100 on the long list.

#6

Bump! Any more votes for the best & worst artwork of 2017 poll?

Rubbish is clearly winning out in the battle between rubbish and grotesque for the worst cover art currently. Credit to Cabbage & JAMC for demonstrating just how easily one can become the other.

On the best artwork poll, Thundercat curently leading with his cover channeling his inner Colonel Kurtz (Thunderkurtz?) with a possibly unassailable lead of three votes.

There’s a particularly strong run between Jesca Hoop and Phoebe Bridgers - any would be worthy winners imo. Jesca Hoop’s jpeg has a cool animation thing going on somehow. No idea how this works, but it’s pretty great huh?

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I’ll give it all a couple more days.