“What Throne?” digital (ink on bristol), 12” x 12”, 2011.
This is album art for an album that doesn’t exist.
Last summer, The All-About and The Great American Novel were toying around with the idea of releasing a joint EP together just long enough for me to start and finish this piece. This was around the time that Jay-Z and Kaye West had released “Watch the Throne,” so I designed the art (and titled the album, itself) as a play on that. The project was ultimately scrapped, of course, but the All-About track, “(She’s a) Heartbreaker,” ended up on their new album. I have no idea what happened to The Great American Novel’s contribution (or if it was ever even recorded), or the duet-style Adele cover that was meant to close the EP… But I’m posting the art here for the sake of posterity, and also out of a deep-seated bitterness. I’m hoping to, as vengeance, inspire a grass-roots campaign to force them to release their version of “Someone Like You” - which almost certainly is what caused them to abandon the EP, out of embarassment.
-CR
