Behind the Covers

“unsettling”

1 cover story in our archive

Behind the Covers' archive includes 1 album cover documented under the "unsettling" design theme, all from the 1990s. The cover sits within the electronic tradition and features work by Aphex Twin. 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.

...I Care Because You Do by Aphex Twin — album cover art

...I Care Because You Do by Aphex Twin (1995)

An oil painting of Richard D. James's face in classical portraiture style — his broad, slightly sinister grin rendered with Old Master technique — satirizes fine art conventions while establishing the Aphex Twin's unsettling grin as a recurring visual motif.

Label
Warp
Designer
Richard D. James
Genre
Electronic
Decade
1990s
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