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Your Pal Mal
First images from upcoming YACHT album, See Mystery Lights.
The See Mystery Lights cover and concept was born from the hand of Boyd Elder, of Valentine, Texas.
Boyd Elder is perhaps best-known for his legendary album art for the Eagles, notably Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, an iconic fragment of the rock history of the mythical American West. YACHT became disciples of Elder in early 2008 while isolated in the far West Texas desert, where the majority of See Mystery Lights was written and recorded.
Elder has not produced an album cover like this for many years, and we are honored to host his psychedelic return to form.
See Mystery Lights is inspired by the “Mystery Lights,” an unexplained paranormal and optical phenomenon indigenous to triad sites around the world, including Marfa, Texas. In homage to this, the album art is printed with a holographic foil which renders the art ephemeral, susceptible to tricks of light. It is impossible to get a feeling for the effect without holding the actual album in your hand. We have animated the online display in order to approximate this phenomenon.
Boyd Elder is a healer and desert-genius.
See Mystery Lights will be released on DFA Records in July 2009.
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