I’ve decided to analyse the album cover for Muse’s album `Black holes and Revelations` more closely. This album was released in 2006 and targets an audience of around 16-35s both male and female with its very mainstream music.
I feel that the cover most noticeably uses a blue and orange colour scheme since these colours are known for working well together due to their position as opposites in the colour wheel. These colours have been strongly saturated and contrasted to create more vibrant colours. Also, these colours have been set to divide the cover between top and bottom, perhaps dividing the black holes above from the revelations of the music below.
A quirky band identity is conveyed through the iconography by having 4 bald men sat around a table on this red planet (connotations of mars) even though these people aren’t the band members. Doing this also adds a mysterious feel to the album with enigma.
The artist’s name and album title goes against conventions through being black on a dark blue background so that it isn’t as prominent as expected on the cover. Perhaps this is because it is one of their later albums (their 4th album released) and so they can get away with not promoting their name as strongly.
The background image of the red planet flows onto the back cover to creating this sense epicness and enigma towards the content of the album. the track lsit is written in white so it doesn't distract you from the background image and institutional information (bar code, record label etc) is conventionally placed alogn the bottom so the audience knows where these features are immediately.
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