//We are now are in a new age of the revival of vinyl as the primary physical music format. But more impactful still in terms of volume has been the influence of streaming. Today it is clear that the virtual world of streaming has hardly been “a final nail in the coffin” for cover art.//

//During the 20th century, the music recording industry began to shape the ways we received our music. The musical sounds they captured and distributed on records were separated from their original visible sources. By the 1940s, the new marketing concept of album art began to fill the visual sensory void, (re)connecting the recorded sounds to imagery through their packaging.//