There's a new meme doing the rounds. Which, like all of them, seems to be a pain in the arse but is actually spectacular.

Basically, it's a fake album cover generator. Here's the deal:

1. Go to wikipedia.com "Random Article" search.

Whatever comes up, that's the name of your band.

2. Go to quotationspage.com and do a "random quote search".

Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and the last 5 or so quoted words are the name of your album.

3. Finally, head to Flickr's "last 7 days" photo generator. The third picture that comes up is your album cover.

Easy. A bit of text placement and...*bam*, you have your own art rock/IDM/arena rock band album. Here's how we went, press releases included:
 



Edmund Bacon
Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag

After throwing his third wife off the Melbourne Eye, the architecturally obsessed Bacon wrote his comeback album from prison. With access to the exercise yard restricted after self-harming with a jaffle maker, Bacon tattooed important feats of engineering onto his body to keep the cogs turning while in solitary confinement. Upon release back to daycare, his first album borne from incarceration finds him emotionally yearning for a time when he could look a building square in the face. The erratic image on the album cover and plaintive title suggest the uneven landscape of his heart, while the fairytale inspired childrens singalongs inside - all voiced by Bacon himself - suggest he's a bit fucked in the head.





Sudong-Gong
All Out Nuclear War Is Unsettling

Icelandic political emo rock has never been much chop, but Sudong-Gong have changed that irrevocably with this sprawling three disc set, titled All Out Nuclear War Is Unsettling. The powerful triple-disc from the famously plain spoken band, follows their magnum opus I Left a Light On, Better Go Back and Switch It Off and its incendiary predecessor Ben Licked The Thermometer and Now His Tounge Feels Funny. An appearance by Kanye West blowing milk through the eyelets of his sneakers provides the albums harrowing centrepiece. 





List Of Municipalities In Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
Shake Yourself, And Go On Again

After fashioning a rudimentary guitar from the ashes of his father's boat post wharf collision - including strings made from the hair of shocked onlooker's - Tim Sneason a.k.a List Of Municipalities In Lycoming County, Pennsylvania has engineered a conceptually heartbreaking debut LP. Holing himself up in a shack used only by the homeless, and recording to Pro Tools 8, Sneason's stark depiction of Western mortality as seen through the eyes of a wealthy university student on Shake Yourself, And Go On Again is truly gut wrenching.

 



Tango Trees
All Computers Are Lousy Actors

After the timely breakup of FireWolf!EmergencyFuckArms!!!Fjord, two of that band's founding members - Basil and Ken - return with this thumping answer to New Wave meets Gamelan dance. Detailing an emotional return from the brink of death after Ken's vital organs rejected his chest implants, producer Basil documents the peaks and troughs of touring the world with his laptop and having room temperature beer spilled on his pants. Ken provides the crying and raps. Number One in seventeen countries.





La Arini River
Applying the Wrong Remedy

Word is that French post rock band La Arini River recorded their debut using nothing but hair products rubbed against a single Rode NT-100 microphone. The results are stunning. Singer James LaNouche's sweepy waxed fringe evokes waves crashing on the shore's of the Seine, while Guilleme Patrice's nose hairs tickling the mic shell suggest gunfire and the sound of a horse being scared. Championed by Roger Waters, Matmos and Godspeed You Black Emperor! as forebearers of a new, post-apocalyptic sound, the band have been roundly ignored by critics and anyone who can string two notes together.


Try your own? Head here and post 'em.