  Whether it’s music or books (explicitly excluding films and games), the sleeve art often determines how I’ll approach an album/book, how I’ll experience it, and what I think of it in the long run. True a poor piece of art is a poor piece of art, no matter how you package it (though we’ll exclude that variable and say that a good sleeve is sometimes the saving grace of something rubbish). I was listening to some urlLink Rage Against The Machine yesterday for example, their second album Evil Empire . The cover art is a primarily fitting yellow; and the music in most cases has a sun-beaten, lazy, sweat glow to it. I don’t know if I’d have summed it up like that minus the art. Though I guess art sometimes is produced naturally for the music; artists have to do that and I commend that job.
Other great examples include the white clinical feel of urlLink Radiohead ’s OK Computer , the very novel film canister of urlLink PiL ’s Metal Box , and perhaps anything by urlLink Anton Corbijn (mostly urlLink Depeche Mode ) and Peter Saville (famously Factory Records) - kings of evergreen hip. Books are the same; save for the ones jacketed in publishers uniforms, books like ones by Haruki Murakami come in stand-out bright and zany designs - just like his works. Whether art is created in response to the music/books, or just matched from a selection later; I think it’s amazing how it’s put together.
Visual aids to non-visual arts are a great bonus. I read recently that Jude Law is going to play Ian Curtis in a(nother) new film about him. Manchester’s Joy Division was the band he started the late 70’s. Save for some extras, there was only 2 albums from this post-punk band and the troubled singer committed suicide in 1980.
The death of the band gave birth to New Order who are still around today. I don’t know Jude Law very well, but I can see why he might be a good choice visually. Joy Division/New Order made (and make) some great music. Anyway, I’m hoping that as the new month draws in I’ll start posting my own works again; it’s been a while. But there have been some interesting muted developments still. I see the dentist on Tuesday. 
