A feral collage of kittens, chaos, and cultural residue.

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An unhinged album sleeve for outsider band The Precious Mings – part threat, part shrine, part deadpan joke – channelling the chaotic excess of 00s internet culture.

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 With a deliberately overloaded visual field – a lo-fi collage of kitten imagery, hand lettering, and hard-edged digital cuts – this album cover is claustrophobic with cuteness. Dozens of blankly staring kittens are assembled into an affective wall of too-muchness. It’s sentimental, but to an unsettling degree. The visual logic is part meme, part cry for help.

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​The album title is an erratic scrawl that looks more like a scratched desk or schoolbook margin than traditional typography – childlike, hostile, and insistent. There’s no hierarchy, no centre, no clean lines. It’s a cover that doesn’t ask to be liked but demands to be noticed. Inside, the liner notes continue the emotional and visual disruption. Illustrated on ruled paper, they combine surreal lyric fragments with grotesque biro drawings, embellished with red ink, a murderous schoolbook fever dream. Deadpan but visually deranged, the insert sits between diagram and confession – part lyric sheet, part illustrated scream.

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A gleeful, knowing irreverence underpins the chaos, and bad taste becomes a deliberate strategy, a form of authorship. It doesn’t pretend to be balanced or resolved. Instead, it commits to an aesthetic of excess, fragmentation, and emotional dissonance and thrives on its ridiculousness.

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Band: The Precious Mings

Label: Weekender Records

Art Direction & Design: Billie Temple