Fleet Foxes’ debut album has been honoured as the greatest album sleeve of the past year. The self-titled release – number two in Q’s countdown of the greatest albums of 2008 – took the Vinyl Art prize for the best sleeve of the previous 12 months.
A selection of 50 striking images made up the longlist for the annual prize which drew online votes and which will lead to sleeve art exhibitions in London, Birmingham, Norwich and Northampton.
Fleet Foxes album featured the 1559 painting Netherlandish Proverbs, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
There was something of a classic theme at the top of the list with Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends a rproduction of Eugene Delacroix's 1830 painting Liberty Leading the People - ranked third.
Roots Manuva's album Slime And Reason, which saw the musician reproduced as a plaster cast filled with a green liquid – came second.
Awards director Andrew Heeps said: “It has been a real surprise to see how some past artistic works have proven to be so popular from 2008's record cover designs."
Previous winners of the award include Hard-Fi's Stars of CCTV and Thom Yorke's The Eraser.
Top ten:
1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Roots Manuva – Slime And Reason
3. Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
4. Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
5. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
6. Metallica – Death Magnetic
7. Bloc Party – Intimacy
8. Low Motion Disco – Keep It Slow
9. Santogold – Santogold
10. Zombie Zombie - Dog Walker
3:41 PM | 05/01/2009
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