In a bygone era, the average listener could feasibly plop an album in their car CD player ... What did you hope to capture with the Man on the Moon III cover? Mostly, just what Scott was feeling.

but it resulted in one of the most striking album covers of the year. Steve Dodd, the artist who painted the cover of Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere, is not an easy man to get in touch with.

Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon album cover dots record store windows worldwide. It’s also plastered on thousands of college students’ dorm room walls, and even tattooed on fans ...