MTAE: album megathread

[Grox]

That guy has rocked a billion faces. crazy

[Elphenor]

old people are lame

[Implosion]

His shirt buttons are holding on for dear life!

[dreams of glass]

Jesus, does he even look at what he's choosing to wear that day?

[Elphenor]

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...62ae5632da.jpg

[Starla]

He's still cute, it depends on the angle.

[panda show]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...62ae5632da.jpg

it looks like he's a left-handed jump shooter.

[pavementtune]

Originally Posted by Araneae

Still no word on which song they're shooting for a video in LA, but here's a photo from Kristin Burns

http://photos-g.ak.instagram.com/hph...09352934_n.jpg

they don't seem to spend much time on the video - Corgan and Jeff were guesting (on a Joy Division song) at the Peter Hook concert tonight at the Metro

http://photos-b.ak.instagram.com/hph...91084234_n.jpg

Originally Posted by dreams of glass

Jesus, does he even look at what he's choosing to wear that day?

the hat is alright, though

[fuzzyroes]

I think Corgans aged pretty well. Dude is approaching 50 for crying out loud.

[duovamp]

I hope I'm that rich when im 50.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by panda show

it looks like he's a left-handed jump shooter.

thats probably because he is

[pavementtune]

http://i.imgur.com/BZYn6P1.jpg


I like the design a lot, to my eyes it's one of the best since 2000.






http://i.imgur.com/SYaFkXY.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/RWAxavd.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/XQE4ene.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/czNhYbv.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/SYsB5aN.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/LIPYA6q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0kgGQ48.jpg

[Shallowed]

Do you think it has to do with there being no typography, it's just Billy's handwriting? It seems a lot more personal.

[Araneae]

Probably. It has a somewhat polished but personal feel (due to his handwriting). I can't say I like the new Martha's music logo, not that the old one was so great, but it looks so boring now.

[Shallowed]

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3895/1...b497f42a9c.jpg

[pavementtune]

Originally Posted by Shallowed

Do you think it has to do with there being no typography, it's just Billy's handwriting? It seems a lot more personal.

for me yes, and the colours, the layout is neat altogether.
For example on the back cover of TFE, the text is all over the place, left column, right column, there's too much going on.
The new album has the tracks centered, doesn't play around with a bunch of font colours and sizes, the background picture looks decent.

It's just a nice surprise, after the teargarden theme disaster (and in general rather lousy artwork for years, including posters and shirts) I didn't expect something aesthetic.

And since I'm a sucker for physical music releases, I care about album design and appreciate every release that looks nice.
The music can be great, but if the album looks like shit - that's still the first impression every time I want to listen to it and hold it in my hands.

[juliana]

Originally Posted by Araneae

Probably. It has a somewhat polished but personal feel (due to his handwriting). I can't say I like the new Martha's music logo, not that the old one was so great, but it looks so boring now.

The old logo was better. His handwriting is cool but not the rest.

[Mals Marola]

yeah as much as it was/is hated i've always liked the zeitgeist "theme" or whatever

it's more iconic than oceania's stock "cool tower!" image, anyway

but yeah that is fer sure one thing that bodes well for the album, at least from my perspective, since from the start i saw the oceania cover and figured it'd all be as lame as its cover (which, to its credit, it did kinda surpass that at least a few times on the record) but i liked MTAE's picture immediately, so, hopefully that's a signifier for the full tracks as well!

[Araneae]

The Zeitgeist booklet was pretty awful. The cover wasn't horrendous, but it felt dated and it didn't seem to really fit the album.

I'm indifferent to the MTAE artwork. It still has a very amateur feel but now it's a bit more polished with a personal touch (the hand writing evokes the SD spirit).

[dreams of glass]

The back of MTAE has that Pink Floyd- Meddle/MBV-loveless feel to it, as in "what the hell am I looking at, the surface of the moon?" To be honest none of SP's album covers have ever struck me as aesthetically pleasing.

[freshfacedyouth]

i really like oceania's back cover, even if it's only a simple ocean skyline

[Mals Marola]

how can anyone not like at least one of the adore covers

machina's pretty pleasing to me for that matter as well, but i guess i could see why some'd pass on it

[Araneae]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

they don't seem to spend much time on the video - Corgan and Jeff were guesting (on a Joy Division song) at the Peter Hook concert tonight at the Metro

If the video really is just a performance video of them in a dark warehouse, then I guess they wouldn't need more than a day.

Peter Hook also shared a photo of him with Billy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2gPiraIcAAGKU9.jpg

Billy has been looking sad and exhausted. It's hard to believe that he's going hit the road soon for some heavy promotion rounds for MTAE.

[T&T]

how is touring for M2AE going to fit in with recording D4N?

[Araneae]

I wonder about that as well. There are also rumors floating around that they are going to play lolla in south america as one of the headliners. I dont know how they managed that without even having a band (besides Billy being really close with Perry). His last update mentioned that he was taking a break to work on other things. It seems like a start-stop process on DFN so far.

[T&T]

and they had already set songs aside for it, but then billy went ahead and wrote 8 songs in 7 days (or something like that).

sounds like they're still making it up as they go.

[Forgotten Child]

They are supposed to be playing Lollapalooza in Brazil and Chile, March next year.

[Forgotten Child]

Confirmed:http://www.lollapaloozabr.com/line-up-2015

[Funbags]

I don't see how Boz can make SP work for Lollapalooza style crowds at this rate. I'm surprised he got booked.

[Shallowed]

http://www.smashingpumpkinsnexus.com...3-C86DF192358A

MTAE sampler available with Pre order from selected stores, featuring Being Beige, One and All, and Tiberius

Would be nice to hear more MTAEsers