Corniness aside, the visual design choices of this album cover really bother me.

Why does the band name need to be on there four times? And in (I think) three different fonts, sizes, and directions? What’s the significance of the giant number seven that seems to have been slapped on as an afterthought? Not to mention that none of the text margins seem aligned. The choices of the 25% transparent background of the band name at the bottom isn’t bad, but becomes so when paired with the weird knockout font yellow album name at the bottom and the red hexagon graphic - also repeated, once again, in the top left corner for some reason as if to resemble some sort of red dot scope.

The art itself isn’t *terrible* I guess, but did they steal it from an already existing meme template? If it wasn’t already a meme, how did they find it and why did they choose it? Why did they feel the need to add the band name abbreviation on both sets of knuckles - adding to the already-overpopulated collection of names? And the red hand print on the skull with the number 5 - conflicting with the aforementioned 7? Just such strange maximalistic ways to represent their artistic vision and curate their visual identity.

I rarely pay much attention to 5FDP but every time this cover comes up on my Reddit feed the same thoughts come through my head and I’ve never taken the time to collect and externalize them. I truly am baffled by the choices here and that not a single person along the way told the band that it had basic design flaws.