original album cover art
- Sleeve 052/100: Love, Fear and the Time Machine (2015)
- Studio Album by Riverside
- Label: InsideOut Music
- Genre: Progressive Rock
- Original Cover: Illustration, design, and layout by Travis Smith
This post is part of the 100 Sleeves: One hundred Album Covers Re-Designed project, a personal challenge I created for myself at the end of 2020. The goal is to create 100 album covers inspired by the music I’m enjoying at the moment.
The first album I listen to from a band usually tends to become a personal favorite and this one is no different.
I discovered this band sometime in 2016, when on a progressive rock/metal binge and got hooked by the variety of their sound.
This album is a bittersweet one. It talks about external validation, the fear of missing out, losing close friends, social media and how life was before it.
If I had to use one word to describe it it would be NOSTALGIA.
The theme of childhood memories at the shore of a river/lake is a constant, and I believe the original cover does an amazing job of representing what this album is about and its sounds.
Album Cover Art Redesign by franzmori. This is fan art, no copyright infringement is intended.
About the album cover art
I was challenged to come up with my own idea, and I struggled to land on the composition and the actual image I wanted to create.
But I knew early on that I wanted to make something that looked hazy, like a memory.
I also wanted to touch on the theme of the virtual world with an artificial look hence I didn’t use lineart in this piece.
Once I decided to go for a kid with the face half submerged in water, things started to flow and I ended up with something I’m pretty happy with.
