milliondollars wrote:wow! crazy that these sold out so fast. obviously the disign for this new (re-)release is intelligent and artistic. same goes for the previous DW repress from 2012. the ideas behind these cover arts are great but none of them can even come close to the original cover art from 1980-something. in my opinion they could have made much more out of it...
Have to agree @mildred - this sleeve is clever, like all of Hynes' work, but the design does little for me as a sleeve for this LP/movie. Just too cheap, cheesy and 'basic Halloween' for my taste.
It's a bold way to go for sure, and clearly fits a theme of the movie, but is very superficial. I do find it somewhat explained by Hynes saying he knew neither the film nor score in advance of the commission. Nothing wrong with that per se, fresh perspective etc. But in this case the approach left me cold- much prefer Jay Shaw's previous approach (and I'm lucky enough to have an OG which, as you say, is already pretty much perfection).
As always, I'm delighted that others are digging it though- we all have different stuff we are looking for in the art treatment of a film we dig, happily Ive saved some pennies on this one.
(Ps I would totally have had an embedded curcuit board beneath a SS logo either as centre label or on sleeve somewhere... ;)