Lost Covers, Vol. 2

HQCovers recently surpassed 100000 views and I thought I’d take this opportunity to have a little resume and see where I’m from, where I’m at and where I’m going. The Past I started creating soundtrack covers in 2006 after I bought the iPod Video, the first one to handle cover artworks. High quality scans were a rarity back then, so I began making them myself in glorious 500×500 pixels! And because I’m a kind person I shared them via the now defunct Amazon customer image galleries. Some of them are still online, for example here’s a nice one that shows my early typewriting skills. After some time I had a…

“Gone Girl” by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

September 30, 2014January 16, 2017 Categories: Alternates/Rejected Covers · Custom Covers · Digital Booklets · Original Covers · Singles/EPsTags: Atticus Ross · Gone Girl · Trent Reznor5 Comments

The official announcement for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ soundtrack album to Gone Girl came quite late in the game. It was merely a good week before release that the Null Corporation announced a tracklist and the official artwork. But because I started working on this series in early September I had no knowledge of the design direction the label would follow. That fact made these custom covers really challenging. It almost felt like an official assignment to me and I approached it with appropriate care. Retrospectively my early draft (#2) for the primary cover artwork came pretty close to the official one (#1). Yet, opposed to its two predecessors, this time the label added an extra Soundtrack From The Motion Picture…

“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

September 30, 2014May 1, 2020 Categories: Alternates/Rejected Covers · Custom Covers · Digital Booklets · Mockups · Original Covers · Singles/EPs · Vinyl CoversTags: Atticus Ross · The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo · Trent Reznor4 Comments

When Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was released in December 2011, the online film music fanbase had just calmed down from ranting and raving about the duo’s first foray into the holy realm of film scoring, The Social Network. Feelings ran high, especially after they snatched the 2011 Best Original Score Oscar from all the other honourable composers. So when Reznor announced a massive two and a half hour long 6-LP-Set for Dragon Tattoo, soundtrack critics around the world must have been completely baffled. And indeed they were… Regardless of the debatable quality of the music, the package it came…

“The Social Network” by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Various Artists

June 18, 2013December 27, 2016 Categories: Custom Covers · Digital Booklets · Original Covers · Singles/EPsTags: Atticus Ross · The Social Network · Trent Reznor · Various Artists4 Comments

With The Social Network Trent Reznor’s recent change of style culminated into an astonishing, Golden Globe- and Academy Award-winning musical composition. Together with long-time collaborator and soundtrack composer of his own, Atticus Ross, he inked the film images into an incredibly melancholy, yet restlessly pulsating sound cloud, that pushed the film in a completely different light. Please have a look at this short documentary to see and especially hear the huge impact Reznor and Ross had with their score. With David Fincher at helm of the movie one could assume to get a thoughtful and stylish ad campaign. But looking at…