Motion City SoundTrack

Image - it is a Photoshop edited image of a man with hair in the shape of buildings and an old night landscape shadow or silhouette with birds almost falling out or flying away because the guy is not portrait but kind of facing downwards. This gives an edgy effect. Moreover, there are two interpretations from the picture either the yellow and pink ribbon is a blindfold and his is reaching out his hand to feel his way around the woods which is connoted by the black lines which look like trees or it is his memory of seeing someone and waving at them.

A completely different and clever interpretation is that he is blind to the real world because of media and could be in a  simulation like the matrix but the media is making us commit to memory the simulation. Or maybe it's my imagination and I'm reading too much into it because it sounds a bit far fetched.

Font- Black, slanted to the right, bold, big, thick and slightly sketchy with a grey background. The albums name is in small scribbled handwriting. I in fact missed this at first glance hence it was good that the artists name was big enough to read from far distances so that the customers will know the brand. The orange and pink is also vibrant and so stands out.

Colour - peach pink + grey I think its almost a cracked wall and the graphics are supposed to be graffiti or it is supposed to symbolise a storm and the grey is lightning causing the birds to fly off. This is reinforced by the saying red sky in the morning shepherds warning - with the pink red sky warning the shepherds to get their sheep in because there may be a storm. The black and white connotes an old antiquated feeling like news paper so maybe the lyrics are related to the news. or it could be connoting death and purity again but that is unlikely with the grey.

Language - it could infer that "Motion City Soundtrack" is quite loud because the city is quite loud. However motion sounds quite slow - from slow motion but then sound track makes it sound like a pop  song as it is upbeat so I will have to look it up on youtube to figure out what the tone of the music is it seems quite catchy with the album name "Commit to memory". Or another interpretation is that the lyrics are so fast that it is difficult to hear them thus it is ironic and near on to memorise lots of word all at once. or the lyrics in one of the songs is called that - usually the best song of the album is what the album is named.

Layout - the layout is quite interesting because it is almost as if it was designed to rotate once to the left - i could challenge this convention design the whole CD cover and rotate it 90 degrees right. the album name ifs shaped to follow the ribbon to almost flow. The land scape slightly seen behind the male protagonist also ends slanted a bit.