The only way that I was able to expand my music vernacular was buying CDs and cassettes. Without YouTube on our side the only other reckoning that provided that audible fodder was a trip to the local cassette store every other month. Then it was just incessant looping till the next musical crusade.

A lot of the time it was the album cover or the title that would draw me in and became discoveries to me like Incubus’ “A Crow Left of the Murder” or the famous Mecha cover of Linkin Park’s “Reanimation”. So in a very incoherent manner, here are my Top 8 Indian Album covers  

8. Indian Ocean – 16/330 Kahjoor Road:  This cover really lets me question if you really need a great artist or Graphic Designer to make an album cover that would interest people.

7. Eccentric Pendulum – Winding the Optics: Simple ,Rorschach-y and the contrast between the pendulum and the blots around contrast each other well.

6. Euphoria – Item : There is something Bollywood about this album that is kind of hysterical.

5. Reptilian Death- The Dawn of Consummation and Emergence: Really loved the effort that has gone into an album cover. Would buy this album just for the cover art(Big Sci-Fi fan).

4. Agam – The Inner Self Awakens: Emphasis of their Carnatic style with the Yakshagana  referenced cover.

3. Sanjeev T- Epic Shit: Trippy!!

2. Bhayanak Maut-Metastasis:  One family , one face. Should be the punch line for a new horror flick.

1. Lounge Piranha – Going Nowhere:  Still trying to relate that old snail-deer chimera to a piranha but any non human living entity on an album cover just interests me.