CLASSIC COVERS VAUGHAN OLIVER
PIXIES DOOLITTLE
“It’s the same photograph as the single (Monkey Gone To Heaven), but reduced to one colour and with bronze on there to give it an earthy feel. The grid came from a conversation with Charles, where he was explaining that successful music was a mathematical equation – which kind of broke my heart, because I’d had this very romantic notion about it. I thought, ‘okay, you’re talking about formulas, but we use formulas in painting, like the Golden Section’, so the grid was my response.”
CLAN OF XYMOX CLAN OF XYMOX
“They were a Dutch electronic band with a grungy feel to them – that’s what led me to create this dirty sleeve. For me, its success is how I arranged the tracklisting. Rather than it being a simple list, it becomes illustration. Here’s something that’s a small formal element normally, and now it’s reversed in the hierarchy. The dirty, rusty look was from a dark-room process where I abused the timing, the chemicals, used wrong exposures, short exposures…”