Survey the best vinyl art of 2013, as selected by the Art Vinyl panel.
The Art Vinyl prize toasts the best vinyl artwork of the last 12 months, with the winner decided by public vote. Chief among the 2013 nominees are Daft Punk, who are nominated for their silhouetted ‘Get Lucky’ single artwork. Boards Of Canada‘s Tomorrow‘s Harvest is in the running, as is Zomby‘s sepulchral With Love cover. Further FACT-approved artist on the list include Ras G (for Back on The Planet), Queens Of The Stone Age (…Like Clockwork), Mount Kimbie (Cold Spring Fault Less Youth) and Forest Swords (Engravings). Damien Hirst’s artwork for Babyshambles’ Sequel to the Prequel also gets a nod.
The full list of nominees is below; head here to peruse the selection and to vote. Last year’s winners were The Temper Trap, Keane and Muse. Each year, FACT run our own guide to the best and worst album art of the year – peep 2012’s highest achievers and worst offenders.
Nominees
!!! – THR!!!ER
ADULT. – The Way Things Fall
Atoms For Peace – Judge Jury And Executioner
Babyshambles – Sequel To The Prequel
Balterspace – Trinine
Balance and Composure – The Things We Think We’re Missing
Bibio – Silver Wilkinson
Bo Ningen – Line The Wall
Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
Bonobo – The North Borders
Braids – Flourish/Perish
Claude Vonstroke – Urban Animal
Daft Punk – Get Lucky
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip – Repent Replenish Repeat
Drenge – Drenge
Dutch Uncles – Out Of Touch In The Wild
Editors – The Weight Of Your Love
Edwyn Collins – Understated
Elton John – The Diving Board
Fainting By Numbers – Watching The Wheels/A Stone In The Ground
Forest Swords – Engravings
FYRNASK – Eldir Nott
Gabrielle Aplin – English Rain
Gold Panda – Trust
Goldfrapp – Tales of Us
Houndmouth – From The Hills Below The City
Iron And Wine – Ghost On Ghost
Kitchens of Distinction – Folly
Moondoggies – Adios I’m A Ghost
Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Out Cold – Invasion Of Love
Paul McCartney – NEW
Phil France – The Swimmer
Pissed Jeans – Honeys
Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
Ras G – Back on the Planet
Sweet Baboo – Ships
The Flaming Lips – The Terror
The Handsome Family – Wilderness
The Leisure Society – Alone Aboard the Ark
These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
Tindersticks – Across Six Leap Years
Tunng – Turbines
Van Dyke Parks – Songs Cycled
Washed Out – Paracosm
White Lies – Big TV
Wild Combination – Pulse
Yo La Tengo – Fade
Zachary Cale – iBlue Rider
Zomby – With Love
