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Inside word on the Crystal Antlers’ album artwork

We checked in with Crystal Antlers’ vocalist and bassist Jonny Bell and asked him to tell us about their album artwork, which is always amazing: ‘I played with the art for the 7″s and the DIY version of the EP. The images mostly came from old children’s books. When Touch and Go re-issued our EP, we needed original artwork so we asked our friends at an art collective in Philadelphia, and they referred us to Jefferson Mayday Mayday. He had a collage called Destiny that we really liked and ended up using for the cover of the re-issued EP. For the new record, we decided the give our friend Janet Beeler an open brief for the artwork. We sent her the record as soon as we finished it and a few days later she sent us the completed artwork. We’re really happy with the results’.

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