The Meters

The Meters were an american funk band formed in 1965 until around 1977 based in New Orleans, The Meters defined New Orleans funk and played an influential role as backing musicians and rarely made it into the mainstream, their sound is classed as earthy and a homey rhythm. New Orleans still hold large Jazz Events and still known for it's jazz heritage. Below are some album covers for The Meters, the top 3 are more recent ones than the ones below. The Meters are a band mentioned by Loose-Knit Funk who inspire them and are a fan of the art work and was advised to research them to understand the style of work. Overall The album covers are fun and quirky, for example The Meters Jam album cover is quite ironic and playful as jam is a word associated with musicians but it is also using the reference of a jam jar making it comical. also with the Kickback cover using a hand written text makes me believe that as a band they are quite relaxed and laid back about their music and style. Typography wise they are very experimental with their type, they don't tend to follow a specific trend through their covers. the band name in the jam jar cover uses a variety of sizes to fit in together again giving me the impression that it's quite fun and unconventional/raw. I think looking at over soul-funk album covers they all try to include an element of fun to emphasise their music style with the use of colours of experimental typographic designs.

To the left the album is quite simple compared to pervious covers and my connotation of this was it reminded me of The Beatles famous road crossing album cover, only because of the idea of the road and the band on it, a strange connotation I know, it's just what I instantly thought of when i saw this. This cover in particular differs a lot from the previous two using a high quality image and it's graphical if thats even a word, it's more dynamic and looks more controlled than say the album cover above, the type has dramatically changed looking more contemporary and well positioned.