PREPARE FOR THE BEST
MOST MIND-BLOWING MEDITATION ON THE ART OF THE ALBUM SLEEVE BY THE GREAT TADANORI YOKOO. PUBLISHED IN 1978. ONLY TOOK US FORTY YEARS TO FIND IT. AND NOW IT WILL TAKE ABOUT FORTY
SECONDS TO SELL EVERY COPY WE CAN FIND IN THE WORLD. FULL STOP.

It's rare. For good reason. It is out of this world excellent. Easily the best album cover artwork book ever. Japan's legendary graphic artist drew on his record collection of 50,000 albums to create this self styled meditation. We have two of them.


It's rare. For good reason. It is out of this world excellent. Easily the best album cover artwork book ever. Japan's legendary graphic artist drew on his record collection of 50,000 albums to create this self styled meditation. We have two of them.


Yokoo doesn't just go at it with the cut and paste - he'll give whole double pages a colour wash. There's an index too - which is invaluable, considering how obscure some of these records are. Tucked into the fold of that spread is Grobschnitt's Jumbo LP. You can listen to that on this infrequently clicked YouTube link. Never ever heard of them before. Never ever want to hear from them again!


There are many truly amaze pages. That's Oliver Nelson's Skull Session with Nils Lofgren's Grin on the insert. Both thrown into completely different colours from the originals.


Exploding vision. Loving this monochrome set so much. 


Taking liberties. Yokoo is the Warhol of Japan so only fitting that he should gets hands on with the Stones' Sticky Fingers cover. 


Yokoo's own sleeve notes to the book are probably only enhanced by Google translate;

'Humans who were eroded by sex and violence eventually turned into beasts. And the last thing we met was the destruction of humanity. The image of the "end of sodom" in the Old Testament. It was not destroyed by the devil's hand, but was judged by God's plan. With the intervention of an alien, I decided to direct the prediction of Nostradamus and the Bible. In particular, the aliens who may be Yahweh (gods) or may be lucifers (devils).'

Handily, he concludes what is a wonderfullyramblingexplanation with the succinct;

'I want to leave it to the reader.'

The book is the true wild style. 320 albums sleeves melted morphed and transfixed over 180 pages. More than a superbook. An archeology. We have two copies and you have one chance to buy on the button below. Go!