1. June McDoom

  2. Dr. Dre

  3. Oingo Boingo

  4. The Lijadu Sisters

  5. Wombo

  6. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

  7. Alice Clark

  8. Julie Byrne

  9. Katy J Pearson

  10. First Rodeo

  11. Nina Simone

    Released 1968 on RCA Victor. Cover by Ronald Jackson.

  12. Released 2022 on City Slang. Design by Izzi Vasquez, photography by Dennis Larance.

  13. Steve Gunn

    Released 2022 on Matador. Photography by Duane Michals.

  14. Mia Joy

    Released 2021 on Fire Talk. Photography by Azul Galindo, design by Clare Byrne.

  15. Oneohtrix Point Never

    Released 2018 on Warp Records. Cover image by Jim Shaw, design and artwork by David Rudnick and Daniel Lopatin.

  16. Kurt Vile

    Released 2018 on Matador. Photography by Mimi Raver, design by Mike Zimmerman.

  17. The Weather Station

    Released 2011 on Fat Possum Records. Photography by Angela May Jackson.

  18. Kacey Johansing

    Kacey Johansing No Better Time released 2020 on Night Bloom Records. Photography by Chantal Anderson, design by Miles Wintner.

  19. Bedouine

    Released 2017 on Spacebomb Records. Art direction and design by Travis Robertson, photography by Polly Antonia Barrowman, artwork by Robert Beatty.

  20. Dolly Parton

    Released 1967 on RCA Victor. Art direction by Herb Burnette, photography by Hope Powell.

  21. Erykah Badu

    Released 2000 on Motown. Art direction by Erykah Badu and Mickey Whitfield, photography by Robert Maxwell.

  22. Released 1967 on Columbia. Photography by John Berg.

  23. Nick Drake

    Released 1971 on Island Records. Photography and design by Nigel Waymouth.

Frames is an album list curated by Rachel Cabitt:

A photographer and designer with a background in music based in New York. She is the co-founder of POND Creative, a visual studio for the music industry and writes The Art of Cover Art, a newsletter exploring the visual history of music.

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