This document analyzes and summarizes an album cover for Vance Joy's "God Loves You When You're Dancing" album. It notes that Vance Joy is an indie/alternative rock singer, so the album cover features a vintage, old look to suit the indie music genre. Specifically, it uses textures like scratches to look worn and old. The colors also have a light, sepia tone to further enhance the vintage aesthetic. These design choices were meant to match both the indie music style and attract indie/rock music fans.

1. Album cover
research and
analysis.

2. This is a Album cover for the ‘Vance
Joy’ Album cover.
Vance Joy is an Indie/Alternative
Rock singer. Therefore this album
‘God Loves you when you’re
dancing’ has very specific
illustrations of a ‘vintage’ and old
look. The cover relates perfectly to
the music genre therefore I have
chosen to analyse this album cover
as it suits the ‘Indie’ style very
clearly. This research gave me great
ideas when constructing the‘This
City’ album cover. This made me
choose to add different types of
layers and also add a worn out title
which will support the look we are
trying to put across and attract a
specific target audience, which are
indie/rock music fans.

3. Firstly, This album cover
uses a range of textures to
create a vintage style
emphasising the ‘indie’
music genre. This creates a
look that the album is old
and worn out. The
scratchy texture is the most
dominant subject in this
album cover and it even
covers the lead singers
face. This could amplify
the importance of the
vintage style in the indie
music genre. This also links
to the music videos
‘riptide’ as there are no
meat shots used of Vance
joy. I have noticed that this
is popular in the indie
music genre. This could be
because the music could
be considered more
important than the
advertisement of the artist.
The Fashion style in this
album cover is also very
specific as Vance Joy is
wearing a vintage looking
shirt, jeans and brown
shoes. This fashion style
suits the indie music genre
as it is very casual but also
elegant.
The title is a white font
which is also has a worn
out style and rough edges.
However the ‘God loves
you when you’re dancing’
Is a simple font which
compliment well with the
background and also
controls the album cover
not looking too messy.

4. The colours used in this
album cover are very light
and sepia. The colour from
the background (road and
grass) blends really well
with the textures and you
can tell that the saturation
was lowered so its not too
vibrant which creates this
sepia and vintage look. It
also looks like the edges
were slightly darkened,
which is purposely done to
create a sense that the
album is old. I think the
‘burn’ tool in Photoshop is
very useful and it creates a
really fine burn effect on
the edges, I will definitely
be using this tool when
constructing my album
cover.