We’ve talked a bit about Spoon’s anticipated seventh album Transference, the band’s followup to 2007′s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: You’ve seen the 11-song tracklist, heard some of its sounds via earlier live and later studio takes, and may have watched a teaser. Puzzles have multiple pieces… This morning we’re officially giving you (and everyone else) the first look at the plush Transference album art. There’s a lot going on in it, even though there’s not a lot going on in it. It’s in the eyes. The posture. The cropped woman to the right. Etc. But mostly it’s in the eyes.
UPDATE: Yes, the photo was taken by William Eggleston … in Sumner, Mississippi in 1970.
Transference is out 1/19 in North America via Merge and 1/18 in Europe via Anti-.
Single “Written In Reverse” is out digitally tomorrow.
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Didn’t the release date get bumped up one week?
wes anderson. i like this.
i am so excited for this
<3 Rob Pope <3
agreed. it does look like a wes anderson image. two creators of cool from Austin….Texas, and everyone thinks there both European.
Is that a picture of rob pope?
Transference of the Mother. Just wait, kid, you’ve got years of analysis ahead.
I believe that is a William Eggeslston photo. Not cloyingly cute enough to be Wes Anderson. Although I did love Fantastic Mr. Fox – the cuteness works well in that case.
I would have preferred one of those oh-so-funny Mapplethorpe photos, but this will do ?
God damn, people. Sound more like hipsters, please.
Takes one to know one, evidently.
I like the lamp!
lolzz
it doesn’t show the woman’s head because Sylar just finished ripping it open…
Has anyone spotted the huge bong in this picture? ?
Britt Daniel is so sexy in that half-dead kind of way.
I love this cover. I don’t know what, specifically, I love, but the way the whole thing comes together is great. I guess it is all in the eyes….
Zoomable version of the original Eggleston photo:
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?pos=5&intObjectID=5119458&sid=
Spoon has such a good taste on cover arts.
are you kidding me? I was just voted the unsexiest man and you think BD is sexy? He looks like my mini-me…
getting’ jiggu did you
getting’ jiggu did you