A Look At a Digipack

Digipacks are generally considered to be more of a special, limited edition release tailored to big fans of bands, meaning they can give more money to a band to receive a bigger, better product.

'Mosquito' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Back cover - has a black and white photo of the whole band with a big fuzzy mosquito, relating back to the album cover and album name.

This is where digipacks begin to really shine, because they allow for some absolutely gorgeous artwork. Here we see a mosquito eating some green jelly, which the Yeah Yeah Yeahs really seem to think that mosquitoes like. We can note that it once again relates more to the album and it's art style than the band.

The booklet is a continuation of the album's front cover and the disc is unique to itself, bearing no real relation to the rest of the artwork.

'Black Holes & Revelations' by Muse

This album's inside is completely different the outside, with a completely blacked out inside, barring the Muse logo, and containing curly writing on both the disc and the middle panel of the digipack.

Folding it over reveals another panel which shows the band in a dark, black room with shows cast over their faces, so not only does it manage to show us the band, but also continue with the inside of the digipack's art style.

'Funeral' by Arcade Fire

Inside the booklet we get the very good looking faux wood finish, sprawled with the artistic drawings, in which green and brown, just like the front cover. It is very good looking and very over the top, with shiny silver writing engraved into the box itself.

The disc ditches the faux wood look but keeps the colour scheme and the flowers from the inside of the booklet.

The booklet reflects the name of the album, Funeral, and is laid out like an actual funeral booklet.

The inside continues this, with credits, signatures and a background to the band, with the songs representing hymns.

'Reflektor' by Arcade Fire

The back of the album shows the logo and the disc which is very minimalistic, but shows a reflective - or, reflektive surface, the album's recurring theme.

As it is a double album, both ends of the digipack contain a disc, with the tracklists for each disc being printed on each side.

The discs retain this theme, but the they have the same pattern, just in opposite colours.

Overall we can see that both the inside and outside of digipacks have themes that they try and convey. They are generally very artistic and are meant to portrayal a particular style, and often contain pictures of the artist inside, but not on the outside, which is a common trait in rock music.