Florence & the Machine - Lungs
- Florence is wearing a pair of lungs which could symbolise that her music is a new breath of fresh air. Also, the lungs are an internal organ, and the fact that she is wearing them outside can give off connotations that she is baring her soul and her life into this music.
Even though Florence is in the centre of the album cover, she doesn't seem to be selling the album cover by her image and who she is. Her face seems to have very fair make-up on but her face is covered mostly by her hair and her side on pose. Covering her face is like concealing her identity, which links to her music is more important than her image which is a convention of Indie Music.
Her side-on face and the open-armed pose shoes that she is opening herself to her listeners and that she has nothing to hide. She is confident for who she is and the music that she produces; it's not all about her but her music.
The backdrop behind her is of greenary and flowers which has the obvious connotations of nature. Her costume colour blends in the backdrop, again camoflaging her to the album cover.
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
The name of the actual album is called "Viva La Vida" which is Spanish for "Live the Life". This Album Title has a moral behind it to live the life to the full. This follows the genres conventions as Indie songs usually containing a deeper meaning that just a literal one.
The actual font style is like it has been graffittied by someone in paint really quickly as if to make a sudden point. The fact that it is painted on, it goes with the painting background. It is in the centre of the painting behind it and this puts it in the centre of attention of the actual album cover; ready to make its point of "Live the Life". Indie music is all about the lyrics and titles carrying a meaning within them rather than just putting music to it and making it sound catchy.
The background image of the actual album cover is of a famous painting by Eugene Delacroix called "Liberty Leading the People". Again this painting has a political meaning as it personifies freedom as the lady is leading the French to happy freedom. This could suggest that these songs in the album are about having the right of freedom to "Live the Life".
The name of the artists of this album cover are not printed on the album cover. This could suggest that Coldplay are selling their music by the deeper level of meaning in the lyrics and songs rather than their image, fame and who they are. This follows the convention of Indie music being all about the music and not much about the artists themselves.
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