original album cover art
- Sleeve 049/100: Slow Air (2018)
- Studio Album by Still Corners
- Label: Wrecking Light
- Genre: Dream Pop // Neo-psychedelia
- Original Cover: Artwork by Scott Campbell
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.
SLOW AIR is the fourth studio album by Still Corners. Released in 2018, I just discovered their music this year, 2022, through their song “The Message”.
I fell in love with the atmospheric sound, at moments psychedelic. I especially liked the clean electric guitar sound and how it melts with the synth and relaxed drumming. Tessa Murray’s voice acts like another instrument in the mix, and overall I find the album to be pretty relaxing (Except for the last song, something about it stresses me out).
My favorite songs from the album are:
- In The Middle of the Night
- The Message
- Sad Movies
- Black Lagoon
Album Cover Art Redesign by franzmori. This is fan art, no copyright infringement is intended.
About the album cover art
“The album title is derived from the sultry heat in Texas which causes everything and everyone to slow down.”
– Still Corners
I took inspiration from the heat and the Sonoran desert for the cover. I thought of a woman fanning away the heat, and certain buzzing sounds in the song “Welcome to Slow Air” made me think of flies over dead things, thus came the idea of including a cow skull head. The background is filled with a pattern of animals and plants native to the Sonoran desert as if they were hallucinations from the heat.
The color palette is similar to the original cover, but while listening to the music it felt fitting: Pink, orange, and yellow to reflect the heat contrasted with lilac and purple to bring the shadow and elements of the night.
