NLX: Analysing the album covers

Why: I have analysed the album covers in order to help me with my anciliary tasks, by looking at previous NLX album artwork i can establish her style.

Analysing the album covers

These are the first two albums from NLX, they come as complimentary albums, linked by the album titles.
As you can see the images of the women in the corner are of the artist herself, although manipulated to look like abstract drawings instead, the colours of these images match, as does the facial expression.

The first cover ‘in your face’ shows the face of the artist; linking with the name of the album, this may signify she is showing her face because the album is named ‘in your face’, whereas the second album shows the artist looking down and has cut off more of her face than on the other, linking again with the title of the album ‘behind your back’ maybe again to signify that she is ‘behind your back’
The names of these albums and looking at the tracks on some of them e.g. ‘walking in my shoes’, ‘code red’ and ‘so far apart’ show that most of the songs are aimed at a person, a past relationship/lover maybe. The in your face alum may represent the ‘in your face’ strong, independent side of the artist to the situation, and the ‘behind your back’ album then links to all the feelings and insecurities she may actually have toward the situation. 
The colours of the albums also tie into how they might be represented, the ‘in your face’ album cover is black, we usually associate the colour with feelings of depression and anger and hurtful feelings, which may link with what I said earlier about the album being about a jilted relationship and the angry feelings that come with it. Whereas the ‘behind your back’ album is white, which usually shares feelings of purity, peace, sometimes sadness and glory, which again could link to what I said before about the album being about the insecurities and maybe even still feelings for the person that they once had.
The artists logo NLX is wrote in a very wispy, messy almost stencilled like pattern, it especially stands out on the ‘behind your back’ album, maybe for reasons such as that of which that may have been the album she felt most confident about – which is unusual to the expectation you gain from the ‘in your face’ album, it seems unusual that she would feel most confident with the shy-er like album. However, on the ‘in your face’ album the NLX logo is very dark, and wrote in purple which may also represent the ‘darker’ side to the artist.
The background patterns to both of the covers show detailed embroidery inspired designs, which appears very feminine.

These are the first two albums from NLX, they come as complimentary albums, linked by the album titles.
As you can see the images of the women in the corner are of the artist herself, although manipulated to look like abstract drawings instead, the colours of these images match, as does the facial expression.

The first cover ‘in your face’ shows the face of the artist; linking with the name of the album, this may signify she is showing her face because the album is named ‘in your face’, whereas the second album shows the artist looking down and has cut off more of her face than on the other, linking again with the title of the album ‘behind your back’ maybe again to signify that she is ‘behind your back’
The names of these albums and looking at the tracks on some of them e.g. ‘walking in my shoes’, ‘code red’ and ‘so far apart’ show that most of the songs are aimed at a person, a past relationship/lover maybe. The in your face alum may represent the ‘in your face’ strong, independent side of the artist to the situation, and the ‘behind your back’ album then links to all the feelings and insecurities she may actually have toward the situation. 
The colours of the albums also tie into how they might be represented, the ‘in your face’ album cover is black, we usually associate the colour with feelings of depression and anger and hurtful feelings, which may link with what I said earlier about the album being about a jilted relationship and the angry feelings that come with it. Whereas the ‘behind your back’ album is white, which usually shares feelings of purity, peace, sometimes sadness and glory, which again could link to what I said before about the album being about the insecurities and maybe even still feelings for the person that they once had.
The artists logo NLX is wrote in a very wispy, messy almost stencilled like pattern, it especially stands out on the ‘behind your back’ album, maybe for reasons such as that of which that may have been the album she felt most confident about – which is unusual to the expectation you gain from the ‘in your face’ album, it seems unusual that she would feel most confident with the shy-er like album. However, on the ‘in your face’ album the NLX logo is very dark, and wrote in purple which may also represent the ‘darker’ side to the artist.
The background patterns to both of the covers show detailed embroidery inspired designs, which appears very feminine.

This is the latest album from NLX, as you can see the style has dramatically changed, however this album cover significantly links with the style of the website (See website analysis for more detail)
It has a very strong Greek artistic feel, with delicate drawings of statues and famous paintings almost somewhat similar to Leonardo Divinci’s painting Vitruvian Man the pictures are all layered to give it a very confusing look. The background colour is a grainy yellow colour, almost such as sand or aged paper would be, which then is a strong contrast to the style of music that NLX is, which coined pop – dark wave is. Here the NLX logo has changed, the style of writing is still similar yet the background that it is on is different, it is more defined and outlined with a symmetrical leaf like design. The album name which appears underneath the artist name is written in the same style as it is on the website, showing the link between style. The interesting thing about this album is in comparison to the two EP covers, which focus a lot more with primary colours and has a very strong ‘you either love it or hate it’ look. This one has incorporated both warm and dark elements of her music, the EP’s before had two discs for each side of her music, the dark and the warmer, whereas this one sets to approach both. The use of the brown like colours could also symbolize how her music has matured and grown, the two EP’s are mostly black and white, when you mix those colours you get an almost brown like colour, which is seen in the newest album. It also features statues of women suggesting that it is a very feminine album maybe. It also shows the woman with her face cropped, which is also what we see with the first two EP’s, this may be a confidence issue or the fact that the artist wants to remain mysterious, which she had talked about when she named herself NLX.

How this will help with my studies: This will help me with my studies as i can use what knowledge i have gained through the album covers to incorporate her style and make my album cover familiar to her style.