The document analyzes the coherence of visual elements in the Arctic Monkeys album "Suck it and See". It notes the album cover uses a plain off-white background and monochrome logo, connoting an "old band" aesthetic from before color photography. The album also uses a plain sans-serif font that connects to its simplistic design. A music video for the song "Brick by Brick" features barely any people and focuses on a gramophone playing vinyl, linking to the album's theme of "vintage music" through conceptual and non-narrative visuals that emphasize the abstract aspects of the song over the band members themselves.

1. Arctic Monkeys: Coherence
Album analysed: Suck it and See

2. Colour
The Arctic Monkeys appear to be very fond of monotone images, as
can be seen in many promotional band pictures, their logo, and on
their website. The logo appears on the cover of the album in question,
which is extremely plain- it consists of the logo, album name in small
black text, and an off-white background.
The colour connotes ideas of an ‘old band’ aesthetic, a classic band
from before the emergence of colour photography.

3. Font
The Arctic Monkeys use a very plain sans-serif
font for the album, which connects to the rather
basic and simplistic design of the Album’s image
as a whole.

4. This poster demonstrates the style of the band
at the time. The blocky text, both on the side
and that which reveals the underlying image, is
reminicent of an old newspaper, which reflects
the ‘Vintage’ feel that this Album was aiming for.

5. Music Video- Brick by Brick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riV77WoFC
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6. This video departs from many of the stereotypes and
common aspects of music videos. The performers, and
indeed any people at all, are barely present, with the
most we see of them being silhouettes and blurry images
when the camera is tossed briefly into the air. The setting
of a gramophone in an old-style playing a vinyl record,
again, links to the idea of ‘vintage music’, a key theme of
the album.
The video is heavily conceptual in terms of visuals, then,
which implies that the band focusses more on the
abstract and conceptual aspects of their songs, rather
than the narratives or the band members themselves.