Richard Stockley

Cover Art Analysis #1

This band is the Klaxons, they are an Indie-Rock band and this album cover comes from their second album “Surfing the Void”This album cover came from the band members looking at random pictures of cats in spacesuits and joking about how a massive billboard will look with a cat in a spacesuit so they decided to actually do it.This has a post-modern reference of people just searching images of cats doing funny things.

The only text on the cover art is the Band’s name and the Album’s name. It is in their signature font that has been used on their singles and previous album.

This cover has a semantic code in that it connotes that animals or just cats are smarter than we think as they are taking the role of an astronaut and about to explore the deep and wondrous space or that this could be a parallel universe/planet as the album title suggests it is about space and it could be on a different planet where humans are replaced as cats

This cover art can also be taken as a mock of NASA as they have reconstructed the photo shoot of the astronauts but have removed any evidence of NASA or America by making their own flag and badges of their logo and set them up in the same way