This document analyzes the digipack cover of the album "Glitterbug" by the band The Wombats. The front cover uses minimal text and a striking color scheme to appeal to indie fans. It prominently features the band's name over the album title, showing they are selling the band overall. The cover photo uses double exposure to create an intriguing image. The color scheme and design elements are consistent with the band's other albums. The back cover continues the color scheme and font but keeps the text unobtrusive. It includes typical information like song titles and labels but no picture of the band, relying on existing fan familiarity.

1. The Wombats Glitterbug
Digipack analysis

2. Front Cover
 The text is extremely minimal yet
effective, the red against deep
blue/black makes it stand out and
appeal to the ‘indie/alternative’
conventions of effortlessness and
minimalism.
 The bands name is far bigger than
that of the album, suggesting the
band know that the fans will be
expecting this release and will buy
into them regardless of what
they’re selling.
 The name of the band also is
displaying a synergetic quality, the
character ‘o’ is written in a different
way, just as it is frequently done
throughout all their merchandising
etc.

3. Front Cover
 The main picture of the girl is done
using double exposure, creating
an intriguing album cover. The
combination of harsh edges and
bokeh lights and colour scheme
instantly draws the audience into
the cover, being incredibly creative
and different to that of other covers
on the market.
 The colour scheme on the cover
again reflects the genre and the
band as pastel colours are
frequently used across both the
indie genre and the wombats other
albums and merchandise, creating
a connection between this and
additional products.

4. Back cover
 The text is in the same font as
seen on the front however, it is not
in the same colour, as to not
distract attention from the front
cover.
 The writing is in white against this
black background, creating a stark
contrast that does make it stand
out to some extent.
 The cover is fairly traditionally
styled, it has all the common
conventions of a cover such as
band name, album title, song titles
etc. However there is no picture
on the cover of the band
themselves, meaning that they
rely on fans already knowing who
they are, this is also something
they do throughout all their albums.

5. Back cover
 The harsh design is complemented
and supported by the song titles
such as ‘Greek Tragedy’, ‘This is
not a party’ and ‘Curveballs’ which
all seem to be more emotionally
depressive songs. This
demonstrates why the colours are
not as gentle as on the front cover,
however again maintaining the
simplicity.
 Barcode and record labels are
present on the back of the CD,
which are conventions of covers as
to give ownership to the
appropriate people and make the
product recognisable by barcode.