This document analyzes the album covers and packaging of albums by the band Seafret. It summarizes: The first album, "Tell Me It's Real", has a plain blue background that allows the band name and album title to stand out in monotone grayscale costumes. The band members on the cover links to authenticity. The title is in white text for subtlety to match the band as new artists. The back has the same art deco font as the album title. It is minimal with no artwork, drawing focus to the artists and their craft. The EP "Oceans" cover also uses blues and has blurred shapes like looking through water, linking to the band name meaning sea fog

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Album:
Tell Me
It’s Real
Album cover;
The use of a plain blue (possibly the sky) background
allows the artists, the name of the album and band to
stand out. The costume which they are wearing is
quite monotone/ greyscale (with a hint of purple).
This again contrasts the lighter colours of the
background.
By having the artists feature of the cover of their
album links to the title of the album, by having the
“real” artists on the cover highlights the authenticity
which the album holds.
The size and colour of the title is complimentary to
the lighter background. The choice of a white text is
unusual as it can be argued it may be unnoticeable
against a light background however the subtlety of
this can link to the artists’ subtlety as they are new
artists and this is their first album. The size of the
album title is smaller than the band name, this
emphasises the name of the artists. It can be implied
that this is showing that they want more recognition,
again linking that they’re a new band.
The overall focus for this cover is promoting the
band, the imagery and font size reinforce this
strongly.
Album back;
On the reverse of the album the font is the
same as the title of the album. Both use an art
deco style linear font. This style is not
uncommon, doesn’t catch the eye however the
nuance of the genre means that the font fits
with the conventions surrounding indie pop.
The colour of the back is light blue as well
which links the back and front of the album,
alongside this the colour is the same as well.
The bottom of the album has the music rights
and copyright information’s in the same but
much smaller font, above the logos of the
production companies and a barcode.
By having such a minimal back with no album
art or imagery again, draws focus to the craft
and the artists. This gives implications that this
whole album surrounds the artists and the
importance of their craft.

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Ep – Oceans
Album cover:
This cover is very minimal, it has a similar palette to the previous
cover of “Tell Me It’s Real” with blues and dark colours being used.
The image itself is linking indirectly to the title. The colour and use
of water gives the impression of looking out of a window, possibly
looking out to sea.
The same font, size and positioning of the band’s name is used on
this ep cover. The only difference is that the colour has changed to
black. This makes the wording stand out more and draws attention
to the unidentifiable blurred shapes. It also gives links to the origin
of the band’s name as ‘Seafret’ which is popular local name for sea
fog, common in spring and summer in Cornwall and on the south,
east, and north-east coasts of England
I could not find any images of the back of this ep however it can be
implied from their previous cover and back that this will be basic
and focusing on the song names (above) and again. the craft.