Thirty Seconds To Mars are a band from the indie rock genre which I am focusing. Their album artwork, is symbolic of their album title. The use of a tiger showing its teeth denotes the sense of the 'war' as the tiger is ready to fight. I like this album cover as I think that is a good endearing image which attracts attention automatically and as well as this the image is used well and is a good way of connoting the title rather than having an image of weaponry.
You Me At Six, another band of the indie rock genre who I have focused on so far when looking into this genre have a very similar album cover to Thirty Seconds To Mars, in terms of the style of album cover. The image behind seems at first to have very little to do with the album name "Hold Me Down" however, the messy frantic colours behind can cannot a lack of control and the "Hold Me Down" appears to be taped over the colours therefore holding down the band.
Jimmy Eat World background is also similar to both of the previous album covers. This album cover, isn't typically what you would expect of this album name "Chase This Light" you'd expect there to be images of light however the use of an image with such bright colours which looks as if it is artificially lit connotes the light. It can also be symbolic of the colours of lights that they are chasing. Also the term 'light as a feather' can be seen here.
It seems to be a common theme of this indie rock genre music to use an image with more than one meaning which can be applied to their album name rather than having an image with directly denotes their album name. By having an image on their album which allows their target audience to connote a mean rather than denote it make the band more appealing and able to appeal to a larger audience. I am going to go further into my target audience next and find out if this is what they typically expect of their music genre and if they like this kind of album artwork.
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