Album Art and the Listening Experience

Same actually
Good album art can really change the way you experience an album along with the imagery you see in your head.

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>>73901805
the album art helps to add context to the music. the best recent example of this imo is pic related. i know sorta what this album will sound just from the cover and a brief description. having the visuals either match of purposely clash with the music adds a lot to the experience because it adds more context to the feeling the album is trying to convey.
>Is there a scientific explanation for this?
lmao

You do that too? I don't sit around daydreaming as a music-listening ritual, but songs very often cause some visual part of my mind to flare up and come up with some weird dream-like shit. Some stuff makes sense, like how I imagine Kanye running down a street in All of the Lights, and then some stuff makes no sense and is much more dreamlike, like how Unsustainable causes me to have a dreamlike montage of doomsday events and post-apocalyptic landscapes that I can never quite picture clearly.
By the by, can you believe that some people don't get chills when listening to music? It's mental.

>>73901805
If it's a really special album, I like to print out the artwork, tear it into little pieces, and eat it bit by bit as I listen. I find it really helps me take in what the artists are trying to express.

>>73901910
meant for >>73901823

>>73901872
shit reddit-tier post rock

>>73901945
>post rock
no such thing

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>>73901805
yes

I unironically choose albums from the sharethreads generally based on album art
it expresses the artistic sensibilities of the artist, as well as the genre
It give me a colour palette, a texture, a world to visualize along with the music

Not saying I actively try to think/visualize it while listening.
I think it's a subconscious thing.
If I didn't take in any of the art, is like talking to a person without ever seeing her face.
Maybe this is what happens to you too, it's nice seeing who you are interacting with. We are visual creatures.

I usually just play music doing other stuff, but when going around the house (eg. cleaning, cooking)
I prefer putting on youtube vids, on fullscreen with the screen turned to the room. Even if the video is just a still image of the album art or artist's face.
That's why i love it when bands do music videos even if it's a very silly loop in the style of the album art. Like a short animated album cover, and nothing more. It's enough for me.


I never keep anything more than the album cover on my computer, but I always go through the rest before deleting it. Taking it all in.


How can you experience GY!BE without interiorizing into their schizo-like paranoic aesthetic? (pic related)

And in this video tell me if the album art doesn't match the idea of the "music collage" perfectly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRZJtSbhVEw

tldr:
yes