Art and Design by Eric Baskauskas
Band: Direct Hit
Label: Fat Wreck Chords
Year: 2018
Another year, another batch of songs from Direct Hit about how there is no god. But also how there is a god, and it’s drugs. Or something like that. The band really stretched themselves on this album while somehow also sticking to their time-tested pop punk approach, and the result is a great record. I am quite happy with my involvement in the art/layout/packaging of it all, even down to the matte paper stock we used on everything.
Widely available on black vinyl and CD (not pictured). The deluxe edition (pictured) looks the same from the outside but includes a transparent red/green split colored vinyl record and a custom-printed slipmat for your turntable. When you put that record on the slipmat, the colors of the vinyl interact with the colors of the printed felt to reveal Heaven- or Hell-themed imagery, depending on how you’ve placed it. There was also a double-deluxe edition that included 4 comic books by illustrator Walker DuBois.
Photos of the package by Brian Santostefano.