Album cover of The Rising Tied by Fort Minor presents a chaotic swarm of cartoonish robots and fractured figures, rendered in sketchy lines and muted industrial colors. The visual noise mirrors the album’s restless scope, jumping from personal absence in Where’d You Go to historical trauma in Kenji and competitive bravado in Remember the Name. The fragmented characters feel half-built and disposable, echoing themes of displacement, war, ambition, and identity caught in motion.

The rough, graffiti-adjacent style reinforces hip-hop as reportage rather than polish, aligning with the record’s mix of social commentary and street-level urgency. The crowded composition suggests voices overlapping rather than a single narrator, matching Fort Minor’s collaborative structure. Artwork is illustrated by Kaela Kimura, with design direction associated with Mike Shinoda’s visual aesthetic.

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Album cover of Nostrum Grocers by Nostrum Grocers mirrors the album’s instinctive, inward-facing philosophy through abstract, biomorphic forms that resemble organs, tools, and fragments of perception. The soft geometry and muted yet uneasy color palette suggest vulnerability, birth, and transformation, echoing themes of origin, betrayal, care, and survival found in titles like circumcision is the first betrayal and peace is the opposite of security. The painterly style resists clarity, reinforcing improvisation and lived experience over fixed meaning. Artwork contributions by renowned painter Kennady Bob align the visual language with the duo’s raw, moment-to-moment creative process.

https://nostrumgrocers.bandcamp.com/album/nostrum-grocers

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Album cover of Space & Time EP by astralblak unfolds as a dense cosmic collage where ancestral memory, futurism, and street culture converge. Central masked faces float within a cosmic portal, suggesting layered identities and alternate lifelines, echoing tracks like Another Life and Wide Awake. Surrounding figures, instruments, and symbols imply ritual, resistance, and funk as survival language across dimensions.

The saturated purples, yellows, and celestial motifs frame astral funk as both spiritual transmission and urban signal, aligning with trumpet-led propulsion and timeless groove. Graffiti-inflected surrealism bridges pyramids, boomboxes, and stargazing into a single continuum. Cover art by legendary graffiti writer Ewok MSK AWR HM reinforces lineage, sound, and space collapsing into one plane.

https://astralblak.bandcamp.com/album/space-time-ep

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Album cover of Ancient Source by Tommy Martini centers a radiant golden sun face encircled by zodiac symbols and stars, floating over a tropical horizon. The imagery suggests cosmic cycles, ancestral rhythm, and timeless guidance, matching the album’s emphasis on soulful grooves and nostalgic warmth. Palm trees and saturated colors evoke late-night lounge energy and West Coast serenity, echoing tracks like Martini’s Lounge and Sweet Memories. The polished retro aesthetic frames funk, soul, and introspection as an inherited source rather than a trend.

https://sicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-source

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Album cover of A Delusional Guide for the Disillusioned by Kemastry X Jazz T presents a surreal parable. Figures sit calmly on oversized red mushrooms, reading, fishing, observing, suspended above nothing. The mushrooms echo altered perception, while everyday actions suggest normalized illusion. This aligns with tracks like Mind Control and Hamster Wheel, framing modern life as passive participation in manipulation. The watercolor, hand-drawn style softens the critique, contrasting innocence with apocalyptic undertones. Artwork by Stilts reinforces the tension between grounding wisdom and drifting delusion.

https://bootrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-delusional-guide-for-the-disillusioned

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Commissioned piece, a sketch and final drawing for a new album of Coldlike Oracle

-Markers on paper

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Album cover of Letters From The Brink by Mercury Renegades presents a weathered skull pierced by a ram horn, its single vivid eye locked in alarm against a rusted, comic-stained backdrop. The gritty collage style echoes underground zines and metal-rap hybrids, suggesting survival, mutation, and obsessive focus at the edge of collapse.

The horn implies defiance and pagan force, while the eye signals hyperawareness, fitting tracks like “Scissors Always Wins,” “No Vacancy,” and the title cut, which read as dispatches from psychological brinkmanship. “La Llorona” adds folklore grief, grounding chaos in myth. Art direction feels DIY and abrasive; no specific cover artist is credited beyond Wolf Rayet and Dahhm Life.

https://dahhmlife.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-brink

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Album cover of Parallax Vision by Akword Actwrite and Dahhm Life presents a symmetrical, psychedelic composition centered on a multi-faced head crowned with stacked eyes and sacred geometry. The repeated eyes echo the album’s framing tracks Point A and Point B, reinforcing parallax as shifting perception rather than fixed truth. The green, violet, and gold palette suggests consciousness expansion, aligning with tracks like Liberating, Return to Deliverance, and Combine Forces, where collective awareness and inner clarity emerge through collaboration. The style draws from visionary and esoteric art traditions, blending hip-hop’s introspection with metaphysical symbolism. The cover artist is not officially credited.

https://akwordactwrite.bandcamp.com/album/parallax-vision

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