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Celebrating its 40th birthday this year, Bitches Brew continues to be one of the most celebrated musical efforts in history of any genre, at least partially because of its stunning gatefold cover.Ĭreated by acclaimed artist Mati Klarwein, who studied with Salvador Dali and Ernst Fuchs, Bitches Brew's spacious, surreal cover art folded out into a stunning mural. Zeppelin's epic full-lengths remain testaments to ferocious riffage and cerebral graphics.Ĭalled the Picasso of jazz by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis had already sequenced the genes for cool and modal jazz by the time he got to 1970 effort Bitches Brew, which smashed jazz through an electronic rock grinder. Storm Thorgerson's cover for the underrated Presence was a nearly deliberate homage to Clarke and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Zeppelin eventually hooked up with Hipgnosis' Aubrey Powell, whose cover for Houses of the Holy was a nod to Arthur C. Led Zeppelin III's gatefold sleeve even featured a rotating volvelle of images. Physical Graffiti intrigued with art-conscious photo-sleeves of a New York tenement. The untitled fourth Led Zep album burst with iconic city-country collages and mystic runes. The band's self-titled 1969 debut bore a cover image of the flaming Hindenburg airship. Right from the start, Led Zeppelin's album art was godlike. Led Zeppelin: I, II, III, IV, Physical Graffiti and So On

The group's name was added on later pressings, and early copies became extremely rare collectors' items. At first, the LP art showed Warhol's signature but didn't feature the band's name at all. That trick demanded special machines to build the cover, which contributed to the album's delayed release. It was a clever example of his merge of art and marketing – what are album covers, anyway, but kick-ass marketing for music? Warhol skewed the art critique strange by printing instructions for readers to peel the banana, which then gave way to a flesh-colored one. Andy Warhol's cover for the 1967 classic The Velvet Underground and Nico shows nothing but a banal yellow banana. Not all album art from the '60s was a visually and intertextually complex exercise. The Velvet Underground and Nico: The Velvet Underground and Nico Pick any record from the band's career, and you'll find some complicated art demanding analysis. Its intertwining cover painting from David Anstey, which could be viewed with thematic coherence from all angles, set the arty standard for all of The Moody Blues' subsequent albums. In late 1967, The Moody Blues abandoned their early R&B roots and released the successful Days of Future Passed, a head-tripping concept album about the life cycle that seamlessly married psychedelic pop and classical music. On his 2006 mixtape Room for Improvement, there is a song titled “A Scorpio’s Mind.The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed, and Well, Everything Else They Did Scorpion is not Drake’s first acknowledgment of his Zodiac sign in his discography. With this album, Drake responds to Pusha-T’s “The Story of Adidon,” admitting that he does in fact have a child with porn star Sophie Brussaux, and with the final track, discusses how he is disappointed with himself for being a single father, something he always told himself that he would never be after his father Dennis left his mother when he was young. This theory is backed up by another Instagram post featuring a chain with a scorpion on top of a Zodiac circle. The title was likely inspired by Drake’s Zodiac sign, Scorpio. Therefore, he put the phrases together and used it as a ‘fire back’ against his haters. He acknowledges their appearance and hate, but doesn’t think much of it. These are common phrases and criticism from people who don’t support Drake. On June 28, 2018-only a few hours before the release of the album, Drake announced the official tracklist via Instagram.Īlong with the release of the album, Drake posted a message on Apple Music under the EDITORS' NOTES section: The advertisements also teased that Scorpion would be a double-sided project. On June 13, 2018, the album cover and the release date was officially teased via Drake’s Instagram post.īillboards were placed all over Drake’s hometown of Toronto, Ontario promoting this album in June 2018. It is possible that Drake leaked the album’s title in an October 2017 Instagram post in which the caption was a sole scorpion emoji, although the official teaser was released through an Instagram post on April 16, 2018.

With a whopping total of 25 songs, it is a double-sided project the first side is solely dedicated to rap whilst the other incorporates more of an R&B style. Scorpion is Canadian rapper Drake’s fifth solo studio album.