DIGIPAK - My Influences

SUEDE

• Suede (CD 
• Dog Man Star (One with lyric booklet)
• Coming Up (One with lyric booklet, an effect for the band)
• Sci-Fi Lullabies (One with lyric booklet on close-ups of the front cover)
• Head Music 
• A New Morning (one with lyric booklet)
• Singles (compilation I want to avoid)
• Bloodsports (Not neat and orderly more the direction I want, Super Deluxe Unboxing
• Night Thoughts (no lyrics, just exposition of album's world)

DYSTOPIAN

• Nine Inch Nails's Year Zero 

FRONT COVER 

not have Suede on it, as they have mostly always done and continue to do so, as well as indie acts Kraftklub, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys (numerous other      artists often also do it later when they have established their image, they can go for more artistic album artwork, Queen did this with Innuendo, Rihanna did it with Anti) Fifth Harmony continue to put themselves on their albums 

REAR COVER

Not have the length and maybe not even have a number, links that they can be played in whatever order like (so that actually is an interesting compromise with streaming culture)

or:

Really divide it like Night Thoughts was, that it has thematic and musical drifts, and thereby have them numbered.

SPINE

For artistic variety have the titles be in different colour and maybe even different case and font, as I have seen in examples like Kate Bush's Aerial.

INSIDE

Have some landscape shots of the city, need to choose what goes outside and inside. Like the landscape shots in Björk's Bastards

SOME FORM OF PROSE OR POETRY

A Sort of prequel and taster like the poem which was also featured in the trailer (could do the same with a trailer of mine). Package
Could also be very unconventional and not have the track listing on the black, and juts this letter

Then the track listing would be inside.

LYRIC BOOKLET

Each song is its own little world, with characters, like the Führerling in Sadie, Beautiful Ones remix bunch of kids? Can't Get Enough Nissi's character Attitude or Duchess the White Made-Up character 

If I can find a song about decadence, the rich, the privileged, and have really shiny photos of buildings like in Kirchberg.

Like George Michael's *Insert title* and David Bowie's Outside, but have the lyrics on the images unlike with George Michael's where they are separated.

Some of these can be gestured as short vids on Instagram and Facebook like Halsey did with Strangers. 

So generally create a fictional illusion, unlike a foreword about the Songs like in Rise Againt's Long Forgotten Songs which maintains the real world behind the songs.

Also have some landscape shots inebetween.

Should I number the pages (like I saw in Caravan's Palace)

Don't have them all vertical, have some horizontal, turned, like in Bowie's Reality, sort of done in Suede's Bloodsports. Don't make it look all neat and orderly, bit chaotic and unsettling for the fictional narrative this album has. 

Instead of having all the lyrics, have excerpts like in Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence, without the title of the song
Then followed by 

SHOTS

High angles of buildings, to be edited in Photoshop to be cut off. 

FONTS
THE CURRENT SUEDE
Has mostly been used in white, but also in black.
I want to break away from this font, so rebrand it in a way.

ALTERNATIVES

Different simple, slightly non-serif fonts like with Kraftklub.

HONEYBLOOD - BABES NEVER DIE
Squiggly, slightly child-like font.

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Have all the information that is usually above aside, leaves space for the tracks to go all the way down (Bowie did it with only the barcode with 1.Outside, Yeah Yeah Yeahs did with all the information:

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