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Wax Poetics presents Album Cover Art, featuring 240 classic, obscure and weird record covers.

Selection of rare strange and bizarre record covers, exploring an element of music culture behind (268 pages, paperback, 262 4-colour plates)

Review: A team of obsessive collectors has gathered together a unique and worldly selection of rare album covers that spins bizarre and mind-boggling narratives. Wax Poetics are not deciphering mysteries, only adding to their mythos. Every album cover tells a story and here Wax Poetics enter the world of the odd, obscure and outrageous. Some hint at the profound, via spiritual, supernatural, or chemical explorations, or speak of the prosaic wolrds of war, sex and comedy. And some are by far more interesting than the music itself.

The Cover Story Volume Two: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art, the second installment in the Cover Story series from Wax Poetics Books, continues a graphic narration of the vibrant subculture of record collecting through the art of the album cover. This volume focuses specifically on strange and bizarre record covers, selected by the staff of Wax Poetics and major collectors of music's avant-garde.

The Cover Story series vividly explores an element of music culture that has withered with the advent of MP3 and digital downloading. Vinyl records tell their stories visually as much as they do aurally and the record cover, the eye candy for the music lover, speaks a language rooted in the environment and era of the music itself. The Cover Story Volume Two: Odd, Obscure, and Outrageous Album Art celebrates the products of music's most eclectic and eccentric figures, those whose artistic visions were so absurd and grandiose, they often extended beyond the boundaries of the recording and onto the album covers themselves.

Issue 29: June 2008 featuring Herbie Hancock, Madlib, Pete Rock, Lalo Schifrin, Spoonie Gee, Jack Splash.

Issue 41: The Hip-Hop Issue KRS One/EPMD cover, featuring KRS One, EPMD, Ice Cube, Ice T and more

Feat Barry White, D'Angelo, Gil Scott Heron, Erykah Badu, Ernie Hines, Melvin Bliss, Spree Wilson, Bilal, The Bamboos, Kings Go Forth & more

Feat Gil Scott Heron, Erykah Badu, Barry White, D'Angelo, Ernie Hines, Melvin Bliss, Spree Wilson, Bilal, The Bamboos, Kings Go Forth & more

Feat War, Syl Johnson, Johny Colon, Budos Band, DJ Muggs Record Reviews, Bill Withers, Claus Ogerman & more

feat George Benson, George Duke, Billy Cobham, Norman Connors, Tom Browne, Bernard Wright, Don Blackman, Lenny White, Marcus Miller, Weldon , Phil Cohran & more

Feat Eddie Palmieri, Fania & Alegre All Stars, Cal Tjader, Harlem River Drive, Speed Records & more

feat Master P, Nas, Danny Brown, Beats By The Pound, Shabazz Palaces, Kurtis Blow & more

feat Nas, Master P, Danny Brown, Beats By The Pound, Shabazz Palaces, Kurtis Blow & more

Featuring Dam Funk Jacket, Sade, Lenny Kravitz, Flying Lotus, Betty Wright, Gary Bartz, Quantic & Alice Russell, Cody Chestnut, Thundercat and more

featuring RZA , Jesse Boykins III, The Delfonics, Bryan Ferry, Nite Jewel, Pleasure, Mac Dre & more

Feat Daryl Hall, Big Daddy Kane, Jose James, Donald Fagen, Ned Doheny, Bobby Caldwell, Keyboard Kim & more

Feat Big Daddy Kane, Jose James, Donald Fagen, Ned Doheny, Bobby Caldwell, Keyboard Kim & more

Issue 35, featuring Zapp & Roger, Booker T, Byron Lee, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mike Simpson/Dust Bros, Def Jef, Lord Finesse, El Michels & more.

First published in December 2001, Brooklyn-born Wax Poetics hit newsstands with a new vision for music journalism. This anthology gathers the first five issues into a deluxe must-have hardbound edition. Colour, 238 pages.

From Jazz pioneers to Eugene McDaniels, Sun Ra and Joe Zawinul to influential hip-hop artists like DJ Premier and the Beastie Boys. Hardback, Colour, 231 pages.