2024 has already been a wonderful year for music, so it makes sense that we’d be treated with some exceptional artwork as well! Below are my 49 favorite album covers of the first quarter of 2024, unranked and lightly organized by color/aesthetics. This is not as exhaustive or delicately arranged as the year-end list will be, but I’ll likely be pulling from it later. Scroll all the way down to see the 7×7 grid–a taste of things to come 😉
Enjoy, and feel free to comment some of your favorite covers I might’ve missed!
Tierra Whack // World Wide Whack
Beyoncé // COWBOY CARTER
Scrim // lonely boy
Dissimulator // Lower Form Resistance
Erika de Casier // Still
Gesaffelstein // GAMMA
Roxy Radclyffe // The Median’s Ark
Kali Uchis // orquídeas
Ornette Coleman // The Complete Science Fiction Sessions
Alluvial // Death Is But A Door
Hannah Frances // Keeper of the Shepherd
Ariana Grande // eternal sunshine
Julia Holter // Something in the Room She Moves
middle kids // faith crisis pt 1
Jazmin Bean // Traumatic Livelihood
Alena Spanger // Fire Escape
Sierra Ferrell // Trail Of Flowers
Katy Kirby // Blue Raspberry
The Last Dinner Party // Prelude To Ecstasy
Vera Sola // Peacemaker
Ecclesia // Ecclesia Militans
Sleater-Kinney // Little Rope
Ana Tijoux // Vida
Allie X // Girl with No Face
Bolts of Melody // Film Noir
Ed Harcourt // El Magnifico
Vorga // Beyond The Palest Star
Frail Body // Artificial Bouquet
Frances Chang // Psychedelic Anxiety
Brittany Howard // What Now
Jonny From Space // back then I didn’t but now I do
UMI // talking to the wind
Rosali // Bite Down
Packs // Melt the Honey
Sam Lee // songdreaming
Sylvaine // Eg Er Framand
Borknagar // Fall
Transit Method // Othervoid
The Absence // The Absence
pizzamachine // Pizza Ex Machina
Empress Of // For Your Consideration
Nadine Shah // Filthy Underneath
Chelsea Wolfe // She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
Faye Webster // Underdressed at the Symphony
Charlotte Sands // can we start over?
Grandaddy // Blu Wav
Slimka // Le Grand Mystico
The Moor // Ombra