"Only by the Night" is an album released by Kings of Leon on September 19th, 2008. It gained awards for; Juno Award for International Album of the Year, NME Award for Best Album, Brit Award for International Album. As well as being a fantastic album, Kings of Leon gave their album artwork a very creative twist.
Above, you can see that the artwork is compiled of 4 images, these each being a section of a band members face. By taking pictures from the same range of each member, the designer is able to create 1 face from 4 which I think is very abstract and is straight away eye catching.
The album is titled "Only by the Night" and there are plenty of features which hint at this title on the artwork. First of all, notice that within the face you can see what resembles an owl. Remembering that Owls are nocturnal and are therefore mostly active "Only by the Night" this is a clever play on imagery. Another way they have done this is by sort of green scaling the art. What this does is give the image a look of "night" vision, once again a good use of colour.
The band name and album title are not the first the you notice when looking at this album cover however this does not matter as the designer has used a direct mode of address in order to instantly create a bond/relationship with the audience so they are drawn the the album this way, only to then see that it has been composed by their favorite band, bonus.
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