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Y<\/span>ou can\u2019t always judge a book by its cover, but sometimes an album cover adds to understanding the music within.<\/p>\n Here are a handful of beautiful (and \u201cout-there\u201d) covers that \u2014 especially with the aid of a little ganja \u2014 might make you think twice about the tunes themselves.<\/p>\n A marble in a sea of zebra stripes? An eyeball in the midst of the ether? It\u2019s hard to say, but any way you cut it, the cover for the Australian psych-rock group\u2019s most recent effort is just as disorienting and hypnotizing as its sprawling tracks. Be sure to check out the glitch-y \u201cLet It Happen\u201d and the hook-filled \u201cThe Moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Following the death of her husband \u2014 iconic saxophonist John Coltrane \u2014 Alice Coltrane founded an ashram in rural California called Sai Anantam. There, she recorded with ashram members, combining Hindu devotionals with droning synthesizers and layered vocals. The cover of this album, a compilation of that music, captures members of the ashram bathed in a soft glow, magnifying the sublime and mystical nature of Coltrane\u2019s art.<\/p>\n The third album from the legendary art-rock group, the cover of \u2018Fear of Music\u2019 is embossed (at least on vinyl) with a grid pattern that gives it the feel of metal flooring. It\u2019s a weird texture, unlike that of any other album cover, and it adds a sense of menace and otherworldliness to dystopian tracks \u2014\u00a0like the insanely catchy \u201cLife During Wartime\u201d and the ironic folk song \u201cHeaven.\u201d<\/p>\n A bizarre take on the name \u201cMelissa,\u201d the \u2018M3LL155X\u2019 EP bears a cover as perplexing as its name. Featuring a portrait photograph of twigs, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, the album cover reveals her hand melding into her face. It\u2019s a subtle trick, much like the tracks \u201cFigure 8\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m Your Doll,\u201d which counter heavy grooves with shadowy synthesizers and Barnett\u2019s modulated voice. Like all of her work, \u2018M3ll155X\u2019 stays just<\/em> weird enough to avoid veering into full-fledged pop territory.<\/p>\n The cover of the Flaming Lips\u2019 classic album \u2018The Soft Bulletin,\u2019 with its garish color scheme and distorted shadows, is actually somewhat normal \u2014\u00a0at least by the standards of the eternally eccentric Flaming Lips, who\u2019ve been known to include their own blood with their albums, among other antics. But the packaging of the live version, released in 2011, pushes things to new heights of weirdness: In lieu of a traditional cover, they\u2019ve encased the album in a 7-pound strawberry-flavored gummy skull. The icing on the cake? Well, the brain inside the skull is marijuana-flavored. The brain-skull-album went for $150 and only a few copies were ever made available. If you didn\u2019t get your hands on one, rest assured: You can always just get high, listen to \u2018The Soft Bulletin\u2019 and eat infused gummy bears. They might just not be weed-flavored.<\/p>\n Originally published in\u00a0Issue 27<\/a>\u00a0of Cannabis Now.\u00a0<\/em>LEARN MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n TELL US,<\/strong> what music do you think is marijuana inspired?<\/p>\n The post 5 Trip-Tastic Art Album Covers<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Getting lost in cover art can contribute to your enjoyment of music. You can\u2019t always judge a book by its cover, but sometimes an album cover adds to understanding the music within. Here are a handful of beautiful (and \u201cout-there\u201d) covers that \u2014 especially with the aid of a littleContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21618,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,99,85,2022,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21619,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions\/21619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tame Impala \u2018Currents\u2019<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nAlice Coltrane \u2018World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda\u2019<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nTalking Heads \u2018Fear of Music\u2019<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nFKA twigs \u2018M3LL155X\u2019<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nFlaming Lips \u2018The Soft Bulletin: Live La Fantastique de Institution 2011\u2019<\/h4>\n
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