Radiohead - In Rainbows

• This cover sticks with few of the conventions commonly found in album artwork. However like many cover it still includes the bands name and the album name.
• However this is where the common conventions stop. The bands name and album title are printed continually all over the cover in brash block capitals and bold contrasting colours. This helps to make the album stand out to potential customers, along with stressing the name of the album in a  literal context.
• The use of "_" and "/" in odd places in the titles is a direct reference to computer coding which commonly uses these signs, this is symbolic of how the alums completely different from what the band have done prior to this, that and how the album was released on the internet before it was released in a physical form, the quirk being for a period whilst on the internet you could pay for the album for however much you felt it was worth.
• The use of a simple black background helps to juxtapose the vibrant colours of the texts and the image.
• Behind the text is the image os an explosion in mid combustion, it gives the impression that it has spewed out the titles for the album, this violent spectacle is a metaphor for the continuing passion that the band has for their music.
• The image has clearly gone through an acid bath process which is evident by the blotches of colour around the image. I feel this blatant experimentation of the album cover itself reflects the bands attempt to experiment as well.