Primal Scream – Sonic Flower Groove album art
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Nov 2nd, 2025. Artwork published in
October 1987
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When Berthold advertised their new Solemnis in a 1954 issue of Gebrauchsgraphik, the type foundry hoped that “the refined judge of lettering will apply [it] to definite tasks, such as cards, congratulatory cards, note paper, book titles, honorific documents, calendars, display work individually featured and last not least bibliophile books and sacral printing work.”
Thirty-years later, designer Helen Backhouse picked it for the cover of Sonic Flower Groove, the debut studio album by Primal Scream. Fans of the Scottish rock band will surely consider this release a “sacral printing work”. The photography is by Andrew Catlin.
