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This is an album with the long-winded title 'Who Speaks For Planet Earth?' cover by a band with an equally long-winded name, 'And Then There Were None'. I've never heard their music but stumbled across this image when browsing the blog of Invisible Creature, probably my favourite music packaging design company. Symbology and metaphor have had a lot of emphasis put on them throughout the course especially within our recent visual language lessons and I think that this image really captures the essence of what we have been learning well.

The idea behind the gold disc is to represent the gold disc that was sent into space on the Voyager 2 in 1977 containing files depicting life on earth, in case of the event that an alien might stumble upon it. This ties into the title very well, 'Who Speaks For Planet Earth?' - the disc does! It also looks like a music CD, which implies that the music itself explores that very idea. Lastly, I think its really achieved that old, 1970's-80s sci-fi movie feel with the vintage-looking illustration, which I think they did a pretty good job with.