Thursday, 22 September 2011

Product Research - Album Cover Analysis 3

Foals - Total Life Forever

Total Life Forever is the second album by the the British Indie Rock band Foals. It was released 10th May 2010 by Transgressive Records.

The album itself does not have a main point that draws the audience to it, the title, blue water and the people could be looked at first when the audience first see it. However the title stands out with the san serif, bold, black font which makes it easy to recognise the title of the album and the artist which makes it easy for the audience to understand the information of the album.

Filling the entire album cover, the picture blends well with the titles as the white sunbeam makes the text stand out. Throughout the picture, it appears that there gradient from the bottom where it is dark to the top where it is light. This relates to the name of the album as the band seem to be trying to swim through a current and as the light connotes life and the dark connotes death, the band may be struggling to 'live forever' which relates to the name of the album.
The water and swimming also relates strongly to the music video of a song on the album; Spanish Sahara. This links the different promotion techniques of the band together and therefore lets the audience recognise the band from their other promotional media texts, such as the music video.

1 comment:

  1. Good start again. Could you get the track listing or other artwork to help you further?

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