Digipak Analysis

All three digipaks are five page images (including discs). The cover image tends to feature the band and album name, the second panel is usually a picture of the band along with the track listings, while the third contains copyrights and the fourth a filler image of some sort. The discs are mostly simple and show the band name/ album name, with the exception of The Killers disc. All of the digipaks fall under the indie rock genre.

The Killers digipak lacks colour (much like the three other examples) except for a few choice words including the album title ‘Sam’s Town’. The band name and album title are both centred in the middle of the image on the front panel, with what seems to be a ‘Miss World’ winner taking up the right hand side, and a ram taking up the bottom left. The Killers logo is made up out of a pointillism style, that gives it the effect of a light up sign (with the dots being lightbulbs) and is a sharp contrast against the aged building behind it.

Sam’s Town is the Killers second studio album, and was produced under the Island and Vertigo record labels. These two companies are fairly mainstream, both of these companies are over 40 years old. Island Records has had such names as Mariah Carey, Dizzee Rascal, Def Leppard and Florence and the Machine signed to them, while Vertigo includes big names such as Black Sabbath and Metallica in their retinue.