Following up their debut We Were Once Lost sees Kent heavy crew focussing on collaboration for A Conscious Motion. With the record scheduled for release 23rd March, the band is here to give a greater insight into the creation it’s artwork.
We worked really hard on the artwork for A Conscious Motion to create something that we felt was unique, interesting and also bold. Ben Brazier came up with the initial emblem idea and we all collaborated on the other details to create the final outcome.
We’ve always had a DIY ethic within our band, from artwork to music to merch, we like do as much ourselves as possible. We all came together on the artwork and created it ourselves as it’s more personal to the band, like with the music it feels so much better when it’s collectively come from our own heads.
It started with us all reading over lyrics from the new EP, an ongoing theme especially in Ben Shortens’s lyrics was “the sun”, with lines like “I’ll take us from this burning sun”, “I watched your soul fade like a dying sun” plus the song Solis is Latin for “Sun”. We used a sun logo for the artwork of the Solis single and wanted to carry on that theme but make it less obvious this time around. So we were looking for something that would reflect that ongoing theme in the lyrics.
It was tricky at first, we bounced around a few ideas, we didn’t want any sort of artwork to be the same old idea that made you think of other album art especially in our genre of music. The goal with this band was always to be a heavy band that didn’t have the typical aesthetic of other heavy bands. Ben Brazier drew up some symbols and rough ideas (which we have included below) before arriving on a symbol we really liked. It’s simple, to the point and doesn’t instantly strike out as being affiliated with our genre of music. We knew as soon as saw it that it was going to be the main symbol for A Conscious Motion.
We spent a lot of time bouncing around ideas for the background, there were countless sketches and textures we tried before eventually arriving on the finished outcome, there was something about the rough texture that stood out to us, we felt like it complimented the emblem perfectly, it wasn’t distracting enough to take away from it, but still made the artwork eye catching and interesting, we always ask for the lights in venues for our sets be blue, a theme we wanted to carry on through the artwork of our music, hence going for a cold blue texture, linking the live and the recorded together.
Cove self-release A Conscious Mind on 23/03/18. Preorder your copy from here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/a-conscious-motion-ep/1341942033
