We can detect a numerous amount of things about a band/artist from album covers, without even knowing anything about them.
For example I've taken 'The White Stripes - ELEPHANT', which I know nothing about.
Genre - Rock/Punk-The colours are red, black and white which symbolise quite dark, sinister colours. Its showing a girl tied up crying, whilst the man sitting next to her is looking smug with a bat in his hand.
She is representing an elephant; she is tied up, and there are peanuts on the floor below her feet and on the reverse side of the album cover she is standing on a stall, scared of a mouse which is below her.
They are sitting on a trunk, which could be a play on words, symbolising an elephants trunk.
Lettering/Font - The font it quite simple, the 'E's throughout the album cover are red, which creates an uneasy feeling. Red symbolises danger, which fits in with the 'punk' side of things.
The 'ElE' in elephant, appears like its meant to look like the front of an elephant, the 'L' being the trunk, and the 'E's being the ears. The album name it larger than the artists, showing thats what they've chosen to focus on.
Target Audience - Judging from the album cover, I would suggest its alternative. I could picture the audience being teenagers/goths/emos.
How do the band/artists choose to represent themselves through the CD cover? -
I think they are trying to portray themselves as different, possible mysterious and hard to read. They seem dark and sinister and slightly creepy as it mentions they are siblings.
They have chosen to have themselves on the front cover - wanting to focus on themselves, maybe not well known enough to have something different.
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