Kings of Leon CD Title Cover

This is a Kings of Leon CD title page which displays the name of the songs and what number track the song is on the CD.

The main focus point within this, is the image of glass being smashed, to reflect this to the title of the album, which conventionally is usually done. The image strongly stood out part because of the colour of the background and the colour of the image also connects with the colour of the text of the title of the songs. It's not strongly clear what the main image is, however with the name of the album it's self, it would make a lot of sense if it was a hour glass being smashed whilst the picture is being taken in mid-air. This image creates a sense of ambiguity and wonder as the audience do not know what the image is. The framing of the image also does not take up the entire space on the back, therefore there is still a lot of dead space within the CD backing cover in comparison to Britney Spears' backing cover.

The name of the songs only take up roughly 1/3 of the entire backing cover which also seems to have become a convention as the same amount of space was used on Britney Spears' backing cover. The font of the text seems to just be standard Arial and also in Sans-Serif Font. This creates the idea the musicians are also passionate about their music, with the simple font and artistic image it's clear it's a completely different genre to Britney Spears' image and genre being pop. This seems more rock, singer/songwriter genre, which i feel is reflected through the simple black on white text with black connoting to the genre of Gothic, however through the artistic photography, it comes across as less harsh and easier to listen to and digest, therefore the genre of Indie/rock is explicit i feel.

The number of the track are also in a different colour to the text of the song, i feel this is also becoming a convention as both Britney Spears backing cover and this CD backing cover have both used this idea. I feel they have done this to make it easier for the audience to tell apart the different songs, and to make it easier to make out the number of the track and the track's name i makes it less harsh on the eye and more pleasant for the audience to read, rather then the whole text just simply being a white, bold mess.

There are also the conventions of bar codes and music production company which appear on all back of CD covers for the reason i explained on Britney Spears' CD cover analysis.

Overall this has been a very simple and easy CD backing cover to analyse as it's completely stripped back and they've definatly taken the artistic image to reflect their attitude as a band and to reflect their genre.