Album Cover Analysis - Regina Spektor 'Far'

This album cover is completely drawn with not much going on, which is unusual, as generally artists want their album covers to be very vibrant and to stand out.The walls are all dull and grey, and the artists name and album name are in very dull colours too, black and white. They are written in a very classical font, and although they are plain colours like the walls, they stand out and catch the audiences attention, perhaps because very little is going on in the picture. The artist has been drawn sitting behind a piano, a trademark of Regina Spektor, and behind her there is an open window. The window does not open up to a blue sky or anything exciting, instead there is a brick wall there. The artist's piano is painted blue with clouds on it, perhaps to connote that what matters most in her life is her piano, not what is outside. The piano is the only colourful item in the whole picture so it automatically grabs the audiences attentions. The album cover itself breaks normal conventions in the sense that many album covers include a large close up of the artists face, or atleast shows their face - this cover is all drawn as I mentioned before, perhaps suggesting that Regina Spektor wants to be known for her music and not her image.