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| Arctic Monkeys first album "Whatever people say i am that's what I'm not". Arctic Monkeys are signed by independent label 'Domino' this means the band have artistic freedom however they are not financially stable (however they are big now so they will be). The artwork on the cover is a friend of the band which adds to fact being signed on an independent label things will have to be low budget. It is a very simple image which some may say suggests the bands simplicity. The image has a slight blue tint in the grey scale, which makes the image more defined and you focus more on the image opposed to the colours. The fact that the man is smoking reinforces the stereotypical indie image of the front man in a band always being seen smoking a cigarette and drinking alcohol, it is a very 'rock 'n' roll' convention which mainly British artists have taken on. I also think it adds to the fact that these people in these bands are your average people and are very down to earth. The CD is meant to look like an ash tray which is keeping the 'cig' theme a continuous aspect of the CD Digi-Pak. The back of the CD is the same man as it was on the front keeping the continuity, he is still holding a cigerette, the list of song titles are also on the conventional side of the right. |
