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CURSED IMAGERY: The Month(s) in Album Art — March/April 2024

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Welcome back, friends! It’s been a minute since we did one of these. As you can probably surmise from the title, March… got away from us a bit, to put it as politely as possible. But fear not! When there is bad album art, there will be bad album art posts here at Nine Circles…at some point.

Now is that point. And boy, oh boy, did we have some bad album art in March and April. As a make good, I’m bringing you the best/worst from BOTH months here in this post. So let’s not waste any more time… here they are!

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CURSED IMAGERY: The Month in Album Art (February 2024)

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Fucking hell, how is it already the end of February? I feel like I just did one of these things. Okay, I guess I did just do one of these things, but still. Time, man. It’s fuckin’ weird.

In any case, February’s over, so it’s time to look back at all the glorious bad album art the month had to offer. And man, oh man, did we have some bad album art to choose from. It’s too early in the year for there to be this much suck in the world. But suck, the artwork did, and thus… choose some favorites, I did. And now, here they are!

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CURSED IMAGERY: The Month in Album Art (January 2024)

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Welcome back, friends! It’s February already? Holy wow. It’s wild how time only seems to move by faster the older we get. I’m sorry, did I say wild? I meant “fucking soul draining.” I don’t know how anyone lives with this inevitability.

In any case, yes! It’s February, and that means it’s time to talk about all the good-bad album covers from January. And hooooooboy were there some good-bad album covers in January. We’ve trimmed the list down to nine for this post, (because #brand, duh) but believe me when I tell you that the long list counted at least thrice that amount. It was a surprisingly epic first month for, just… horrible design choices. So all that being said, here are our picks!

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CURSED IMAGERY: The YEAR in Album Art (2023)

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Welcome back, fellow Serious Art Critics™! We’re coming in juuuuuust a bit over the wire with this edition, but as promised in November’s edition, it’s time to celebrate the year in bad album covers that was 2023.

All told, it was a year that gave us a myriad of both questionable artistic decisions and opportunities to clown on them — and we actually did so for the entire year! (I don’t know for sure, but I have to assume that’s a column commitment record for me at this blog.) This edition of the column will focus on the Best of the Worst of them. In true #Bestof2023 fashion, we’ve got nine of them for you. Will your (least) favorite be among them? Let’s find out!

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CURSED IMAGERY: The Month in Album Art (November 2023)

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Another month gone. I don’t know what’s harder to believe: that we’re almost through 2023 or that I somehow haven’t missed a single month of these posts since reigniting this endeavor. (The latter. Definitely the latter.) Anyway, another one in the books means another set of goofy ass album covers to bring you passionate art lovers. And hooooooboy were there plenty of goofy ass album covers to choose from this month. So, let’s jump into our picks, shall we?

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