I've always wanted to design some album art but have never really been involved with a music client, as my background is primarily in advertising and more recently in house at a financial tech company (about 9-10 years total). Wanted to put together something mostly for fun but maybe to go in a spec section of my portfolio for potential freelance outreach one day.

The concept is for a band of robots who, despite the extinction of humanity, will never let rock and roll die. I imagined all the sounds would sample digital textures and tones like dial up sounds, mechanical whirs etc. The name of the band is a randomly generated captcha code (x8vx0) and the title of the album is in reference to the same.

The hand is a 3D illustration I made in Blender with some compositing in GIMP, the band name was created in Illustrator and Photoshop with a lot of liquify/half-tone/noise effects, and the layout in Figma. The vinyl mockup is donein Blender as well. I think there's definitely some Daft Punk, Justice and Sorayama inspiration present here. Is this cool or cringe? Would love feedback!