“metamorphosis”

1 cover story in our archive

Behind the Covers' archive includes 1 album cover documented under the "metamorphosis" design theme, all from the 2010s. The cover sits within the rock, electronic, pop tradition and features work by Tame Impala. Each entry below includes the cover artwork, the designers and photographers behind it, and a short story about the visual choices that defined the release.

Currents by Tame Impala — album cover art

Currents by Tame Impala (2015)

Robert Beatty's abstract image of swirling liquid in vivid colors visualizes the album's theme of overwhelming change — something solid becoming liquid, a form dissolving and reforming as something new. Not chaos, but metamorphosis.

Label: Modular / Interscope
Designer: Robert Beatty
Genre: Rock, Electronic, Pop
Decade: 2010s

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