Lost worlds of sex and magic: Vaughan Oliver's album sleeves for 4AD

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Lost worlds of sex and magic: Vaughan Oliver's album sleeves for 4AD
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By collapsing history in on itself, designer Vaughan Oliver – who has died aged 62 – created complex images that heightened music by Pixies, Cocteau Twins and more

A good album cover can be a map, a portal or a clue. A guide to the music within; a window on an artist’s life, be it glamorous or workaday; or something less obvious, an image that might allude to just one element of what’s inside. It can even be a foil to wrongfoot you. Vaughan Oliver sleeves were frequently all of these things at once.

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