Comparative cover art (Erasure/Joy Electric)

Erasure and Joy Electric have made their names with sparkling synthesized pop songs that could soundtrack fairy tales. 

It seems to me the two bands even hired the same artist to create their respective album covers.

Suitably, both albums feature lush, baroque electronic pop (the Joy Electric record’s lyrics are even based on Medieval themes). 

Erasure "I Say I Say I Say" (1994)                             Joy Electric "We Are The Music Makers" (1996)                                              

                     

Cover art with letter hieroglyphication has been done in synth pop as early as 1986, witness the sleeve for OMD’s “The Pacific Age”. 

 

Funnily, the double triangle “M” looks like a precursor of Anton Corbijn’s artwork for Depeche Mode’s 2013 “Delta Machine” (their “M” was, of course, drawn in black).