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Tuesday, 05 January 10
5th Jan 2010: Art Vinyl today announces the winner of Best Art Vinyl 2009 with the Muse album – ‘The Resistance’ taking first place, Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ coming second and Fever Ray’s self titled album coming third.
The 2009 winners, display a diverse mix of art and design with the Muse album’s intense graphic work from the studios of La Boca, to the striking Jenny Saville painting used to great effect on the Manic Street Preachers’ sleeve to the very detailed illustration work of Martin Ander on the Fever Ray cover.
“With the Best Art Vinyl Award now in it’s fifth year” Andrew Heeps, Art Vinyl’s director comments, “we see the award growing in stature and a great way to celebrate the unsung heroes behind the art and design of some of our favourite bands and artists. This year has been a particular fantastic year for the award as we have seen lots of new talent mixing with some of the heroes of sleeve design such as the Tom Hingston Studio, Farrow Design, Designers Republic, Rankin and Damian Hirst. Some of the sleeves have also required a whole team like the design for Florence and the Machine album who’s credits include Tabitha Denholm, Hugh Frost, Tom Beard and Orlando Weeks for their respective work as Art Director, Layout designer, Photographer and Illustrator just for that one sleeve.
The band Muse join a list of other prestigious winners that include the Fleet Foxes’ self titled album, The Cribs’ Man’s Needs, Woman’s Needs, Whatever, Hard-Fi’s Stars of CCTV and Thom Yorke’s The Eraser in what has been a great year for the vinyl format.
Andrew Heeps goes on to say ‘we’re looking at a year when vinyl sales have increased again by over 30% this year, so while the sales of CDs are loosing their importance the size and the beautiful canvas a vinyl record sleeve produces, is really adding value for the owner when purchasing the actual record
Diane Dever, from Strange Cargo’s Georges House Gallery in Folkestone says, “The exhibition has been very well attended, proving vinyl lovers as well as the general public are appreciative of the beauty and creativity that goes into vinyl art. Visitors to the gallery were extremely keen to take part in the public vote in the run up to Christmas and Folkestone is looking forward to what Best Art Vinyl 2010 will bring!”
BEST ART VINYL 2009 TOP 50
(See separate document “Best Art Vinyl 2009 Winners 1-50.xls” for design credits)
1 Muse The Resistance
2 Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers
3 Fever Ray Fever Ray
4 Massive Attack Splitting The Atom
5 Green Day 21st Century Breakdown
6 Pet Shop Boys Yes
7 White Lies To Lose My Life
8 Editors In This Light And On This Evening
9 La Roux La Roux
10 Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe
11 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
12 Bat For Lashes Two Suns
13 The xx xx
14 Weezer Raditude
15 Thee Vicars Back On The Streets
16 Florence & The Machine Lungs
17 Yo La Tengo Popular Songs
18 Kelpe Microscope Contents
19 Jarvis Cocker Further Complications
20 The Hours See The Light
21 Jaime T Chaka Demus 12"
22 F**K Buttons Tarot Sport
23 Wallpaper Doodoo Face
24 Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz
25 Flaming Lips Embryonic
26 Mastodon Crack The Sky
27 Loko In Love
28 Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
29 Mars Volta Octahedron
30 Wild Beasts Two Dancers
31 Horrors Primary Colours
32 Skunk Anansie Smashes Trashes
33 Jay Z The Blueprint 3
34 Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca
35 Art Brut Art Brut Vs Satan
36 Volcano Choir Unmap
37 Headless Heroes Headless Heroes Ep
38 Duke Garwood The Sand That Falls
39 Prodigy Invaders Must Die
40 Rakes Klang
41 Atlas Sound Logos
42 Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
43 Nextmen Join The Dots
44 Clark Growl's Garden
45 Basement Jaxx Scars
46 Maccabees Wall Of Arms
47 Peter Doherty Grace Wastelands
48 U2 No Line On The Horizon
49 Sonic Youth The Eternal
50 Piano Magic Ovations
INFO ON TOP THREE WINNERS
1st
Artist: Muse
Title: The Resistance
Record Label: Helium 3 / Warner Bros
Designer: La Boca Tel 0207 792 9791 ext. 3
http://www.laboca.co.uk/LB3site/aboutus.html
2nd
Artist: Manic Street Preachers
Title: Journal For Plague Lovers
Record Label: Columbia
Design: Steve Stacey & Nicky Wire
Original Painting: 'Stare' by Jenny Saville courtesy of The Broad Art Foundation Santa Monica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Saville
3rd
Artist: Fever Ray
Title: Fever Ray
Record Label: Mute Records
Designer: Design and illustration: Martin Ander
http://www.mander.nu/
From Jan 5th the Best Art Vinyl 2010 the winners will be featured in exhibitions at
The Art Vinyl Gallery, Basement level, Selfridges London, Rough Trade East, London, Snap Galleries in Birmingham, and Georges House Gallery in Folkestone. All of the designs will be displayed in the Play & Display Flip Frame.
For more information and images contact Andy Newcombe on +44 (0) 7515 288379 or andynewcombe@artvinyl.com