Textual Analysis of Album Cover: Sam's Town

The main image on the album cover is the band name in the font that The Killers always use, this creates a link within all of the music that they have created and allows their work to be easily recognised. The name of the album is also on the cover, this allows people that purchase the album to know exactly what they're buying and it is essential that the album title is put on the album itself. The album title is the only part of the physical album to contain colour, this could suggest numerous things such as the name of the album has great importance or that the band just wanted the name of the album to stand out to people. The artwork on the album is rather abstract, this could be to connote that the band make a unique type of music or that they just want to catch peoples eye if the see the album in a store. If the album gets peoples attention it may lead to more sales and a greater number of sales creates a larger amount of success.