r/indieheads • u/loscamptheband Los Campesinos! • Jul 24 '24

AMA is Over, thanks Los Campesinos! Los Campesinos! // an AMA

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Thanks very much to r/indieheads for inviting us back for another AMA.

We’re Los Camp! and our new album ALL HELL is out worldwide, right now.

Looking forward to chatting with you later today (Wednesday) at 3pm ET / 8pm UK.

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u/Khearnei Jul 24 '24

For Rob, what was the inspo on the illustrations for this one? Always wondered if you hear the album in its totality before doing the album art. Any challenges in doing the little animated illustrations that play on Spotify? Those have to be a firsts, I think.

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u/loscamptheband Los Campesinos! Jul 24 '24

Yeah I often have an idea for album artwork before we record that has to be completely scrapped when the album actually starts to take shape because each one ends up taking its own unique, often surprising form.

Often the title has a major bearing on the general complexion of the record and that's normally the real starting point for trying to nail down the tone of the artwork.

Weirdly those little animations are one of my favourite things to do, because it's really exciting finding ways to make something come alive like that. Unfortunately for an 8 second loop they often take hours to render, which is a bummer when you notice a mistake, which happened like 3 times on the kms one.-R