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pick-up summer

Genre: Shoegaze • Noise Pop • Experienental Rock • Jazz Rock • Blues Rock • Psychedelic Rock • Alternative Rock

Tracklist:-

1. sunshine

2. tan 1

3. burn on my skin

4. only when i say

5. give me the sun

6. smile for me

7. tan 2

the blue man

Genre: Shoegaze • Noise Pop • Experimental Rock • Acid House • Industrial Rock • Trip Hop • Alternate Rock

Tracklist:-

1. tan 4

2. give me your

3. how you do you

4. hmm interlude

5. something something

6. why i need you with me

7. over my head interlude

8. it smiled back

9. My God Waits for Me

Release Date: Unknown

Aloha people, this is a frame by frame animation dedicated to this wonderful piece by Gesaffelstein (which is actually part of a design series dedicated to music, probably some of you already saw something in this group!).

ps: doing motion in this way it's ACTUALLY quite a manic process aha

I posted my most recent cover (https://undatedrecords.com/waiting-in-your-past-by-the-americanisms/), but it was reported and deleted by the mods, apparently under Rule 5:

Low effort submissions will be removed. This includes unaltered images or unedited AI-generated images, and anything else the moderators deem to be low effort.

This post is not a complaint about the mods. They are totally within their rights to enforce sub rules as they see fit.

There are also sub visitors who dislike AI, and that's within their rights, too. Downvote if you want to.

However, I think the rules need clarification. Maybe there should be a flair for "Uses AI" that AI-haters can use to filter out those posts. In any case, I argue that simply using an AI image as part of a cover is within the current rules, and should be. 

I've had an art project making imaginary record covers since 2015. You can see some of my favorites and recent ones at the link above. (Yes, I really have made over 1,200 of them, so I'm pretty serious about it.) I've posted in this sub for five years, and some of my posts have been pretty popular:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fakealbumcovers/comments/qll1em/obvious_bots_tell_me_why_single/

https://www.reddit.com/r/fakealbumcovers/comments/vb22ym/merciless_wench_down_day/

https://www.reddit.com/r/fakealbumcovers/comments/143zurq/ruthless_desire_maxisingle_by_merciless_wench/

Even some others that use AI got upvotes. While #1220 uses an AI image, it is absolutely not "unedited" or "low effort." I didn't tell AI to "make a cover." I wrote a complex and unique prompt to (eventually!) get an image that had the right "traditional engraving but hallucinatory" feeling I wanted. I created the band name and song titles and designed the typography to work with the image, which also took time and effort. All my covers blend image, words, and design in careful and intentional ways. Some come together easier than others, but none of them are "low effort." All of them take a lot more effort than "RAC formula" posts, which are allowed (and should be).

So, that's my case. I'm interested in what people think, so please leave comments.

That's me btw