Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown digipak analysis

Kings of Leon

Come Around Sundown

 This is Kings of leons fourth album and featured singles such as Radioactive. This album was only released in digital and digipak form and therefor no hard case CD is available. The digipak does not feature any of the artist and assumes that the audience will know who they are.

The front cover of the digipak features abstract artwork of palm tree leaves and the sun. The colours used, yellow, orange and red, continues throughout the digipak to create a chilled mood to help reflect the music of the album. The palm tree has conventions of a relaxing place, somewhere isolated and sunny. This links in with the albums single Radioactive because the music video was filmed in a similar locstion. It also helps to represent warmth with the conventions of the colours used. The ext on the front also conforms to a relaxed tone using white font.

The back features many of the usual things expected of a CD or digipak such as track list or credits, sont music. The back also features a silhouette of the band at the coast line.the band are silhouetted because it helps to create their identity without actually showing their faces, they have also done this because the band are well known enough to not need their faces for recognition.

The inside covers have three similar scenes of the beach and horizon over the sea at sunset. The scenes overall create a positive setting because the beach and sunset are both positive images and create the warm tone of the digipak. The left inner cover features a track list in white to match the rest of the font. the inside middle also features a silhouette of the band but this time they are round an open fire, This is another image which helps to create a positive, warm theme that runs throughout the digipak. The final of the three inside covers also helps to create this identity of a remote beach as it shows two palm trees standing in solidarity. 

The final inside cover is very blank and  features "KOL" the initials of the band and the album name. The shortening of the band name helps to  creates an identity and a link with the fans of the band. The font used is also conventional of an informal beach style font that conforms to the whole theme of the digipak as well as the palm tree and colour scale to link to the other sides. the colours used also link with the beach theme using sand colours to create a setting.