the album is here, it's a really good and criminally underrated indie folk rock thing. the cover artist is Danielle Norris
i love seeing young visual artists who take cues from the artists working on children's media they may have grown up with. i'm not saying definitively that that's an inspiration for Danielle, but this artwork does remind me a lot of the picture books i had growing up, which often had a surprisingly weird, artful bent to them.
in particular, this album reminded me of David Legge's "Bamboozled". its realist artstyle is combined with visual jokes, impossible geometry and trompe-l'oeils - a kind of kid's introduction to Surrealism, an art movement which combined the same techniques into a methodology and philosophy of the adult art gallery.
by repackaging Surrealism for such a specific audience as pre-teen suburbanites, you get something very different and unusual; a friendly, playful version of the domestic surreal, halfway between Peewee Herman and David Lynch. it's rich material for the imagination and artistic inspiration, even as an adult.
