James Morrison
One of C.A's main influences is James Morrison, we interviewed Charlie Green from the duo and asked who he was influenced by most. Morrison's music falls under the genre of indie/alternative which clearly shows the link as to why he is a main influence for C.A.
The album sleeve consists of mainly pale, bland colours rather than bright colours which suggests that the music is more of a chilled out tone rather than a heavy bassline/techno beat song.
Comparing C.A's music to James Morrison's there is a definite similarity between the two artists as they both include guitars in their songs and have an acoustic sound to them.
Bon Iver
Bon Iver's album sleeve is clearly a picture of green scenery, this matches the genre of their music as they produce a gentle, acoustic sound. By using a portrait of the woods suggests a chilled, relaxing sound that includes soft instruments rather than heavy. The colours on the album sleeve are all similar and none of them are extremely vibrant which supports the fact that they produce gentle music that is calming to listen to. The scenery shown on the album cover is similar to that we are thinking of including on ours - green scenery, somewhere in the countryside/woods as it represents a peaceful sound and the valencia tone effect implies that the music is of the indie/folk genre. When asked what they thought would be typical to have on a folk/indie album cover, a few people said that they associated the genre with woods/countryside as folk music reminded them of the countryside.
The artist doesn't have any text on their album cover which implies that their target audience will know the album belongs to the band just by the image on the front. This suggests that the artist has a niche target audience who keep up to date with the latest band news/read music magazines that advertise the album/have seen the album advertised (most likely in a music shop e.g. Fopp)
Gabrielle Aplin
Again, you can see on the album cover that the artist is in a scene surrounded by trees and woodland. This again supports the idea that most indie/folk artists have their album cover shot with greenery and a peaceful scenery. The font used is a classic style of writing (italics) which could make the album cover seem pretty and suggest that Aplin's music is like the others; acoustic with a soft sound. We've been inspired by this album from the font used to present the artist's name, it looks quite vintag-ey, as if it's been typed (creating a sort of sentimental effect) which looks really good on the front of an album.
Fleet Foxes
Like the other three album covers, Fleet Foxes have chosen to show a portrait of something outside. This seems to be a recurring thing between albums of the indie/folk genre. It's more similar to Bon Iver's cover than any of the others as both of them are paintings rather than a still image. The main colour seeming to run through all of the album covers is green - which suggests a natural vibe and that the music is all natural and acoustic rather than heavily edited and auto tuned. If you listened to each of these albums you'd find out that they all do sound very similar and include the same instruments in most of their songs.
We've finally decided on using a black and white image of the artist (inspired by James Morrison) and to use the font that Gabrielle Aplin uses to present her name, to present C.A on the album cover. We've also chosen to write down some of the lyrics and stick them in the bottom corner of the album cover so the album looks more handmade. Instead of using all black and white (which could seem quite dull) the colour of the font will be red, making the artist's name jump out to the audience.
However another idea is to have a plain black and white image on the front accompanied by simple TNR text with the artist's name on the front. The back of the album will have the song name on it.
