This is the digipak release of El Camino, the seventh studio album release from American rock duo the Black Keys. It was released in December 2011.
The digipak is an eight pane (inc. reverse), with each pane carrying an image of a car, mainly large utility vehicles. The cover image is eponymous in that it displays the car (a Plymouth Grand Voyager) that the Black Keys first toured in.
The design, in its simplicity is fairly entropic. The design doesn't give a broad idea of the band's style but at the same time alludes to a sense of travel, road trips, the classic example of touring as a group, being on the road for days and not living a life of luxury before it all came good. This idea also became the centre point of the music video for the band's release of Gold On The Ceiling which was taken from this album. The preceeding magazine article to promote this album featured the very same vehicle on the cover, in the style of a faux newspaper ad, accompanied online by a parody commercial advertising the Black Keys' old tour van.
The disc is a bright turquoise colour with tracklisting, album title and band name and record label clearly displayed. Common conventions of digipaks are present despite the design being quite unique. Only in the inner sleeve is there a small booklet giving information about the album and the band, which all add up to create a fairly unique-to-the-Keys design. The rear pane shows the tracklisting, bar code and further information which you would usually find on album covers/similar digipaks.
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