conventions of indie folk digipak back of album covers

1. CONVENTIONS OF
DIGIPAK BACK
COVERS

2. Simplistic colour scheme, pale
apart from the window, and so
it draws attention to it.
Barcode.
Record label
logo.
The back
cover links in
with the
image on the
front cover.
The track list is
set out very
unconventionally,
as there are no
numbers next to
the title, and are
spaced out in
lines rather than
columns going
down.
Copyright and legal
information.
Looks as if there
is some kind of
effect on the
image, to make
it look more
vintage.
MUMFORD AND SONS –
SIGH NO MORE

3. THE LUMINEERS –
THE LUMINEERSUnconventionally dark and
colourless.
Conventional
display of the
track list, with
a column going
down and the
tracks
numbered.
Barcode.
Copyright
and legal
information.

4. THE DECEMBERISTS –
CASTAWAYS AND
CUTOUTS
Conventional in
the sense that
the track list is in
a column going
down, however,
there are no
numbers next to
the track.
Record label
logo.
Information on
the record label.
A brown/red toned colour
scheme.
Abstract art
aesthetic for
the
background
cover, which
maintains the
same colour
scheme as the
front cover.

5. NOAH AND THE WHALE
– FIRST DAYS OF SPRING
Copyright and legal information,
conventionally at the bottom of the
back cover.
Barcode, unconventionally
at the top of the cover
Image of the
band on the
back, facing
the wrong way.
They are sat
this way on
purpose,
because on the
front cover
they are facing
the camera
and on the
back one they
are looking
away.
Same colour
scheme as the
front cover.
Visible vintage
effect added on
to the cover. This
is becoming
more and more
of a convention
within the indie
folk genre
throughout the
videos, posters
and album
covers.