The Jam – Sound Affects album art
Sound Affects is the fifth studio album by the English rock band the Jam. The album was released on 28 November 1980 by Polydor Records. It is the only Jam album to be co-produced by the band themselves, and contains the only album track co-written by the entire band, “Music for the Last Couple”.
The cover art is a pastiche of the artwork used on various Sound Effects records produced by the BBC during the 1970s.
Jam frontman Paul Weller has opined that Sound Affects is the Jam’s best album.
Despite being a tribute to the BBC Sound Effects records, the album title uses a surprisingly different font: Vineta, in italic caps with shadow. “JAM” and “NO. 80” appear to be added in Univers Bold Italic. “POW!” is in Stencil. The artist and title on the back useEurostile Bold Extended, accompanied by Helvetica.
The back cover of the album features an excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem The Masque of Anarchy.
