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Daniel Blumberg pictured on a ladder, beating a rock against a wall.
The Specials - ‘Too Much Too Young’ 45 single label, 2-Tone black and white design with checkerboard pattern.
Portrait of Susumu Yokota by Rune Hellestad. Yokota is wearing a zipped up blue tracksuit.
Kirk Barley - Arc album cover. Watercolour painting suggesting a hilly landscape overlooked by banks of clouds.
Black and white photograph of Tricky, by Steve Gullick, with swirling light pattern as backdrop.
Miles Davies - Kind Of Blue album cover. Close up of the artist playing trumpet against a black background with lettering in blue and white.
Scene from Spirited Away. Chihiro on an empty train with No Face.
Old colour photograph of Warren Ellis with little visible grey hair.
Photo by Annapaola Martin, from Buñuel's performance at Sleeping Village in Chicago last summer.
Nick Granata, photo by Robin Bazalgette.
Shane Embury pictured by a bridge, photograph by Rob Blackham.
Dorothy Ashby - Hip Harp album cover. Black and white photograph of Ashby playing the harp.
Nate Young of Wolf Eyes standing in front of some electrical cables and some shelving units.
Kate Carr - Vertical London (New Year’s Day) album cover. An abstract pattern of lines (two partial circles and a skinny triangle slightly obscured by a pattern of intermittent horizontal lines). Pale blue on pink with the title in white.
Scene from Spirited Away. Chihiro having tea and cake with No Face and a witch like character with large features.
English football players Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle, who briefly teamed up as a musical duo in 1987.
Björk - Homogenic album cover. The artist in a computer generated (or edited) image wearing a futuristic kimono type outfit against a light grey background decorated intermittently with the same berry and twigs pattern that appears on the garment's cloth.,
Colour photograph of John Robins
Michael Cloud Duguay, portrait by Jamie Kronick. Colour photograph taken in a wooded area. Duguay is wearing a grey wool jacket and a peaked cap.
Scene from Spirited Away, with Chihiro sat on a train with ghost like figures and clouds visible outside the windows.
Speaker Music - Synoptic Audio album cover. The artist sat at a table with electronic instruments, lit from either side by four vertical strip lights. The front of the stage is light with an orangey red light and the back wall is a dark green.
Mica Levi - Under The Skin OST album cover. Scarlett Johansson's face coloured in red and blue, blown up against a starry night sky background.
Colour photograph of the duo Cocanha. Both women are wearing red and blue and each is holding a flat six stringed instrument that is played with a bow.
Evicshen, photo by Hugo Adelino. The stage is lit with a wash of red light and the artist is pulling some sort of strings from her mouth to her right hand.
This Mortal Coil - It’ll End In Tears album cover.
Image of a pint of bitter on a wooden table.
Colour photograph of Asha Puthli, wearing a silver outfit with big circular sleeves.
Yoko Ono’s Season Of Glass album cover. John Lennon’s spectacles, blood-spattered and damaged from the night he was murdered, sitting next to a half-filled glass of water, with the Central Park skyline in the background. Japanese obi strip version.
Colour photograph of a traditional ploughman's lunch—bread, pickled onions, cucumber, tomatoes, relish and cheese.
One Leg One Eye - Crone album cover. Close up of tree bark with a band logo in pseudo death metal style.
BlondeRedhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons album cover. Nine passport sized photographs of the members of the trio, tinted in red and arranged in a grid with a black border and white lettering.
Colour photograph of the duo Guttersnipe, standing next to a large rock.
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda album cover. The artist wearing a light purple robe, pictured against a reddish orange background.
Brian Ennals and Blockhead - Boatshoes album cover. A cartoon like illustration of a mouse in t-shirt, jeans and sneakers standing on a pile of skulls, in black and red against a white background.
Yoko Ono’s Season Of Glass album cover. John Lennon’s spectacles, blood-spattered and damaged from the night he was murdered, sitting next to a half-filled glass of water, with the Central Park skyline in the background.
Black and white photograph of Mort Garson standing at a modular synth.
Soft Cell ‘In Heaven (When I Dance With You)’, still from the video.
Phillip Golub - Partisan Ship album cover. Messy abstract painting with thick daubs of paint in many colours.
Conway Savage - Too Dark To See: Solo and Collaborative Recordings 1992–2010 album cover. Savage sat at the keyboards with his name in white lettering in the middle left hand side.
My New Band Believe at what looks like a mediocre birthday party. Photo by Daisy Ayscough and Tomos Ayscough.
Actress Radical Frame album cover. Black and white image of the back of someone's head with the title in white lettering across the middle and what looks like a rectangular piece of blue tape stuck an inch above the right ear.
Evicshen - Hair Birth album cover. Victoria Shen with a piece of rope or cord in her mouth. The black and white image has grooves overlaid on it, like the grooves of an LP.
Eye Wander by Ferries album cover. Illustration of a Halloween pumpkin with 'Ferries' carved into it.
Yma Sumac - Voice Of The Xtabay album cover. The artist in green, wearing gold coloured jewellery and headpiece, with a volcano erupting in the background and two stone idols. Titles in white against a black background.
Colour photograph of a traditional ploughman's lunch—bread, pickled onions, cucumber, tomatoes, relish and cheese.
Melvins - Stag alternative cover with circular lines spreading outwards.
Black and white photograph of Suede standing next to a tiled wall patterned with wavy lines.
Oren Ambarchi - Cooked album cover. A plush animal's head in close up. The animal's sequins are rather bare on the top of its head.
Live photo of The Heads. Deliberately blurred as if to imply volume.
Facial closeup of the artist Eartheater.
Melvins' Stag album cover. Angular illustration of a gnarly flower with a skull shaped centre and cactus like appendages, one of which is holding a sign that reads: 'Stag.' All against a dark mustard/light orange background.
RenzNiro - No Weapon Shall Prosper album cover.
Evicshen, photo by Hugo Adelino.
Converge - Love Is Not Enough album cover. Illustration of an angel in flight, seen from behind.
Forest scene with sunlight peeking through the trees.
Tara Clerkin Trio - Somewhere Good album cover. Cardboard mock up of a building with photographic scene inserts and the title above the doors.