Manic Fever

Manic Fever didn't require a long conversation.

The album is about trying to stay afloat. Politics, disease, the churn of the internet, the weight of what it means to be a person moving through all of it. So much noise that clarity becomes an act of will. The cover is a figure gasping, surrounded by waves that are also static, everything pressing in at once. Two colors: yellow and magenta. Warm and suffocating in equal measure. The combination was fixating. Nothing else fit.

The back gave each song its own image. Twelve tracks. Twelve illustrations. One grid. Every song deserved its own world. Contained, specific, part of the same noise.

Client

Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops

Year

2023

Credits

Jill McClain – Copy
Alyssa Leicht – Photography

Project Details

Creative Direction
Art Direction
Illustration
Graphic Design
Package Design

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