Album Artwork Analysis - Kings Of Leon

The album cover of come around sundown looks obviously so simple on paper, but it is clever for an album cover that relates to the band, and the music. It has a distinct image, with one picture, by an American beach, edited with a yellow and orangey contrast to create a typical Californian beach look. It being edited with the orange colour is to show the visual of this coast, which is now going into dusk/sunset, and giving it a summery, sunny feel, which, it incorporates back into the title ‘sundown’, as if to say the sundown/sunrise is coming down. This picture also gives me that family feel, as if you’ve just looked into a family scrapbook from, and this is one of the pictures that they have took, on one of those old fashioned film reel cameras. The font on this cover is snazzy and has a southern American look to it, which is ironic as the band is originally from South America, so the idea is closer to home. It has a white text with a slightly orange outline, which makes it bold and doesn’t interfere with the back picture. The picture is the main attraction and the overall appearance of this album is very appealing to the eye. It’s an interesting cover that is not too overly designed or has any real true, deep meaning or representation, which isn’t bad; it just has a creative meaning to it, which is a recurring theme in the bands previous artwork. It is a simple design that didn’t take too long to create and is beneficial to the artist.