Artist: Noah and The Whale
Album: The First Days of SpringLocation: Outdoors, in the country side, they're stood in long grass on what appears to be a windy day. The location also relates to the title, as it says the first days of spring and the photo looks quite sunny and as if it was taken in spring.
Colours: The colours are actually quite neutral and typical of being in the countryside, as the photo has blues and greens as main colours in it.
Font: Use of bold font for the band name really brings the audiences focus onto the actual band and you have to look into the album title more as the font is smaller and lowercase.
Editing: The photo itself has been edited to give a vintage feel to it through the use of the saturation.
Symbolism: As the three in the background are looking up towards, this could symbolise worshiping.
Composition: The camera is slightly looking up to them and they're not in the center of the image as they are placed nearer the bottom, with only the top halves of their bodies showing.
Lighting: The use of lighting is very natural and fresh looking, as it is soft lighting.
Props: The only props used in the cover is a old camera which fits in to the convention of the indie genre as it is vintage and old looking.
Mise en Scene: They are dressed in simple, casual clothing, in shirts and denim
Position: The lead/front man is stood further forwards and is more in focus than the other three in the band which could mean he is the singer, although he isn't the center of attention as he is positioned to the right.
Artist: Two Door Cinema Club
Album: Tourist History
Subject: Floor tiles and a cat, the cat is actually quite an indie thing because of the representation behind it and in a lot of tumblr or even twitter bios from people that listen to the genre of music the link 'i love cats' tends to be present.
Location: Is somewhat unknown, you can only assume that it would be in a location that commonly has tiles so probably at home in a kitchen or bathroom focusing on the floor. This provokes some thought from the audience to where it actually has been taken and the meaning for it which is typical of indie artists as they like a good hidden meaning.
Colours: Despite having quite a few colours within it the overall concept is a minimal colour scheme as at first glance it could appear to be in black and white, only the markings on the cats fur and on the tiles and the cats eyes really look colourful.
Font: The font used is big, bold and white and of course it is in capital letters, a trait most, if not all indie artists tend to do on their album covers. The bands name is also written in their signature, logo looking font which is used on all of their future/past albums. The album name itself is hard to recognise but is still written in the same way as the bands name which makes it effective, just a lot smaller.
Editing: The top of the image is very dark and looks as if they have used a half vignette effect, it has definitely been contrasted a lot and the colour has been altered to give off a vintage vibe as the whole album itself looks very retro.
Symbolism: There isn't any obvious concepts or symbols within the album cover, the image doesn't obviously link with the album name or band.
Composition: All the text on the image is centered.
Lighting: The lighting is very dark in the image, however it has probably been editing to look like this.
Artist: The XXAlbum: Coexist
Subject: The letter/symbol 'x' filled with a picture of what appears to be petrol/oil residue on the ground.
Colours: White background, rainbow colours used within the 'x'.
Font: Not a specific font, but still big and bold which is common of this genre.
Editing: An image has been cut into the shape of an 'x' this has made the outcome to be really unique.
Symbolism: The X simply is part of the bands name, but it could be taken to mean very different things for example uses of it in every day life is as a letter, the plus symbol and the times symbol.
Composition: Centered subject which makes it more pleasing to the eye.
Artist: Hedgehog
Album: Blue Day Dreaming
Subject: 3 people, the middle woman is looking up to the sky which could relate to the word day dreaming from the name of the album as she is not focused on a clear object it looks like she is day dreaming. The other two people in the background are both looking in different directions, one down and one straight forward although you can only tell from where their heads are as you can't see the eyes.
Colours: There is minimal colours with green and orange added onto the artwork as well as blue which relates back to the album title again, 'blue day dreaming' which is also in blue. Blue as a colour comes across as cold, and sad so maybe it means that the songs on there album have sad hidden meanings.
Fonts: Again, they have used big, bold and capital fonts for the bands name and used a mixture of upper and lower case for the album name.
Composition: The cover is split bottom half for the artwork image and upper half for the text. This also makes it look that the centered woman is looking up at the lyrics which could show that she is the lead, probably the singer. It's usual for the front/lead artist in the band to be centered and further forward than anyone or anything else on an album in the indie genre so they've followed certain conventions as they have also used artwork which creates a very unique and individual cover.
Props: Sunglasses, hide the eyes of what we can see of the faces of the two people in the background.
