The Bike Locks - Album Front Cover

The front of our album cover is based on the design of the "Stuck in the Middle with You" single cover. The original album cover is a parody of the Reservoir Dogs DVD cover in which the song is played in that famous scene. 

Stealers Wheel's album shows four of the men from the DVD cover as members of the band but in this version carrying guitar cases. Therefore we took this idea and created silhouettes of ourselves holding various instruments and items from our video such as a cut throat razor to give intertextuality. 

As on the Reservoir Dogs cover the band use a red blood splatter across the album and also add it to the shirts of the band members. We took this idea and created our own style splatter in blue to represent shaving foam as we parody Tarantino's scene in which an ear is removed with a cutthroat razor in our music video by giving the victim a shave instead. 

In terms of typeface we used exactly the same fonts as both Reservoir Dogs and Stealers Wheel. We wanted to keep this a running theme throughout and really mimic both of the origins of our cover. 

Reservoir Dogs Cover

Stealers Wheel Cover

The Bike Locks Cover