Posies Announce New Album Solid States, Contest to Design the Cover

The Posies’ 8th album, Solid States, is going to be released in the spring of 2016, and the band have announced a contest to design the album cover. One winner will receive $500 USD and a special Posies prize pack. From Creative Allies:

We are making our 8th album, which for us represents major changes in our lives from the recovery of the loss of our drummer, Darius Minwalla, who passed away last year, to major musical reinventions of our sound and style. The album Solid States encapsulates an irony. In fact, we acknowledge that nothing is solid; everything is fluid, exploding, falling apart, recombining and that is the true nature of life. As much as we try and hold on to things, they change. And getting comfortable with this concept is the source of a lot of anxiety for most people (including us).

Our ideas for the cover concept are that it’s very scientific (solid being one of the states of matter). We envision a little bit of the above mentioned anxiety coming thru in an abstract drawing. Something frenetic and frantic, but also mathematical. We imagine the lettering for the band/ title would be several layers, like an exploded drawing.

Yes: Pencil, pen & ink, precise, scientific, hand made but controlled. Computerized art is OK too, but there needs to be a human aspect to it. Not *too* cold.

No: Photographs. We’re looking to avoid anything “retro” as well.

For more information on how to submit a design, please visit Creative Allies‘ website. The deadline to submit is February 10th.

Win a Meet & Greet with the Posies & Brendan Benson

On Twitter? Help promote the Posies’ upcoming US tour with Brendan Benson & Aqueduct, and you could win a pair of meet & greet passes to the show in your city.

More info, from the team at Brendan Benson’s website:

How do you enter? It’s simple. Tweet about the tour. Don’t spam your friends and make it natural, not some robotic advertisement. Add your own personality to it. You MUST include the link to Brendan’s tour page (http://bit.ly/bbposaq) and the hashtag #bbposaq. Tweets that don’t have BOTH of them will be disqualified. If you can fit them in, Brendan’s Twitter is @_BrendanBenson and The Posies are @ThePosies.

Two days before every show, we will contact the winner and give them all of the details (ex: for Milwaukee on 11/5, we will contact the winner on 11/3).

We will also have random merch giveaways along the way to keep you going! There will be some goodies from The Posies tossed in there for good measure.