Digi-pak Analysis 2

For my second digi-pak analysis, I will be looking at the album named Because Of The Times, produced by Kings Of Leon - Front cover shown to the right. As clearly show, the cover consists of a dark background, skull, smashing light bulb and the name of the band and album. I believe that the skull and bulb are used to show the stereotypical representation of an "idea", hence the bulb above the head. The way in which the bulb is smashing however may have been used to symbolize the intensity of the music on the album, representing the genre.
This is also suggested by the skull- adding a dark, almost uncomfortable impression to the image. The contrast between the colors has worked extremely well, allowing the white to work off the black.
This also helps the viewers identify the name of the band and album clearer, a feature which is also helped strongly by its placement on the cover; being placed just above the center. The back cover also consists of a dark background (constant theme), showing the smashing lightbulb as it appears to have hit the floor. This add a little excitement to the cover, keeping the observer interested. Beneath the image is the list of tracks on the album, shortly followed my the producer and record label - bottom left. The text throughout the albums cover is presented in bold, white capital letters - allowing the words to stand out from the darkness in the background even greater.
The contrast between colors allow the observer to read the information on the album with ease - a useful feature that I will consider for my album. Overall, the context of the album is extremely simple however extremely well presented in terms of its combinations of color, and contextual arrangement.