Worst Covers 2011

No, we’re not talking about Neko Case and Nick Cave’s craptastic take on ‘She's Not There’ or Papa Vs Pretty doing Angus & Julia Stone, but the worst cover art for the year as selected by MAX EASTON (you know, the Trial By Gif guy).

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Papa Vs Pretty
United in Isolation
The producers of The Human Centipede go for something more tasteful by surgically grafting cocktail frankfurts to the head of a chromed Oompa Loompa.

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Oh Mercy
Great Barrier Grief
Answer this, guy-with-fine-arts-major - how can Ken Done be such a good artist if he didn’t even notice all the brush marks he left behind?

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Rat Vs Possum
Let Music And Bodies Unite
The Meredith Gift 2020, wherein it has (d)evolved into a nude wrestling match. (Popping a semi still inappropriate.)

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Henge Beat
Jackson Pollock’s work if he had access to Microsoft Paint in 1996.

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Boy & Bear
Moonfire
Photoshop Tutorial #32: How to fuck with RGB settings to romanticise the shitty park you used to smoke cones in at high school.

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The Aerial Maps
The Sunset Park
“Let’s use Linkin Park's font for the band name, then paste the words ‘FUEL’ and ‘CAFÉ’ into a disarray of equilaterals to make a statement about long distance Australian travel.”

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The Death Set
Michael Poiccard
Caught staring @ side-boob

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An Horse
Walls
Unnervingly creepy; like the twins from The Shining all grown up.

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Divorced
Separation Anxiety
It's a collage featuring a lava pit and a woman with a gravity-defying breast shooting a beam out of her eyes ... which sounds amazing...

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Lost Animal
Ex Tropical
The look of tortured pleasure on his face makes me kind of relieved that album sleeves fold out horizontally.

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The Vasco Era
The Vasco Era
Maybe a fifth crucifix would clear up the symbolism.

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Tara Simmons
Be Gone
Was gonna make a crack about how shit a trip would be if you were hallucinating the vomiting of ants, but the real downer here would be how dull the colours were.

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Drapht
The Life of Riley
Barricade your windows; hip-hop street art has met the airbrushed van doors of 1978.

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Calling All Cars
Dancing With a Dead Man
Guess the common thread between a python, a flame and two levitating planets, and send your answer to the Calling All Cars fanclub for a chance to win.

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Sun God Replica
Primitive Clockwork
When zen gardens go bad.

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MORE END-OF-YEAR LISTS:

Critics Poll 2011: 50-21
Critics Poll 2011: 20-1
Tracks of the Year