Beck – Stereopathic Soulmanure album art
Contributed by Jay Handley on Dec 7th, 2022. Artwork published in
February 1994
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Photo: Jay Handley. License: All Rights Reserved.
Released in 1994 by Flipside Records, just a week before the better-known Mellow Gold on the Geffen/DGC label, Beck’s second full-length LP Stereopathic Soulmanure was a compilation of early “lo-fi” rock recordings.
And underscoring its origin in the decade of alternative rock & grunge, its cover has that most 1990s of grunge typefaces, FF Blur.
Design by Gibran Evans and T.A.Z. (alias Jim Evans), featuring a drawing by Bob Gundermen.
Scan by Florian Hardwig. License: CC BY-NC-SA.
The track names and the credits are set in FF Blur, too.
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“I was only teasing, teasing you.” might be part of the original found (?) Victorian art. Mixoma (2022) is a recent typeface with a similarly unconventional weight distribution.
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