John Legend's album cover, used a very minimalist approach. He has a dirty white background colour, with three flowers coming out from the side. The flowers are red and therefore connote love and lust. This therefore works with his music as his songs are slow r&b, about love and heartbreak.
Beyonce's Rise Up song, has the artwork from the animated film epic. The character shown on the front cover is the character Beyonce uses her voice for. The cover is bright and eye catching. The flowers in the cover are at the back of the cover yet they dominate it.
Another John Legend artwork is for the song 'Who Do We Think We Are Ft. Rick Ross' the song is taken from the album shown above. He therefore uses the same theme of flowers. In this cover there is a close up of a flower which is distorted; there is also a piece ripped out. The artwork has a grey filter over it making the vibrant red colour a more dull one. The artwork connotes heartbreak, sadness and gives a sense of gloominess, which is also the feeling you get when listening to the song therefore the artwork works for that particular song.
Passenger's album cover for 'All the little lights' is what seems to be a drawn bush with a tree. Inside the bush there are little shiny lights which is literally showing 'The little lights' connected with the album name.The sky is a dark blue which sets the mood of a relaxed, night time...etc
Passenger's songs are slow, and instrumental which once again works really well with the relaxing album cover.
Another album cover which uses flowers is Sleater- Kinnery. Again a very minimalist art piece with a dirty white background and a bunch of wilted flowers. The cover gives a feeling of lifeless and connotes a sense of 'giving up'.However it looks great with the dirty white background and the album name/artist in black... capitals at the top.
This album cover by Sonic Youth, uses nature as a main theme of the artwork. It is unusual with two girls underneath a blue net who are in a bush of small leaves. You are able to see the sky in between the trees which is neither bright or dull. It is more in the middle, a simple white sky. The trees have bright green leaves.