![]() ![]() These images add an extra dynamic to the experience of Distant Populations. Bodies float in membrane bubbles, and faces morph in and out of themselves. The staff-wielding caped character with a spiky head from the album art repeatedly appears in colorful jagged landscapes along with one-eyed, sharp-toothed monsters. ![]() Psychedelic and beastly, Tetsunori’s art is expanded in a YouTube playlist posted by Epitaph to stream the entire album.Įach song is accompanied by animated sci-fi fantasy visuals taken from Tetsunori’s art. ![]() The album art, created by artist Tetsunori Tawaraya, proves a distant, exploratory, otherworldly nature to the album. Based on the visual art that the band and their label, Epitaph Records, has been promoting, this isn’t quite true, but it isn’t entirely false either. The name of Quicksand’s latest LP, Distant Populations, makes me think of a science fiction concept album, maybe an observation of an alien society similar to an Ursula K. ![]()
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