Artful but Oblique

We got a little bit of good press from this week's Isthmus! They ran an article about album art and Be The Engine was mentioned. Also mentioned was the album art work for Madison punkers, Tar Babies. These bits 'O good-ness exist because of our very own Robin Davies (a.k.a. Newlow).

Here's what Dave Benton said about the Be The Engine cover art:

“It’s basically just a silhouette of a person on a swing against a blue background. The image speaks to me because the person is at the widest arc of the swing, and anybody who has sat on a swing and felt that motion knows the kind of freedom that represents. The image suggests possibilities as to what people might find in the music. It’s artful but oblique.”

Nice!

Actually, I do remember the feeling of sitting on a swing and hitting the uppermost point in the arc, freezing in place and then, the return to earth.

I get motion sickness pretty easy and swings definitely do it for me. Dave is right. There is no greater kind of freedom than a violent heave of vomit!

I like the album cover though.

The cover piece that this little article accompanies can be found here.