![]() ![]() “She looks so great here with dirty fingernails,” Brian says, producing a box set of Florence + the Machine’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. Their record covers can be beautiful, but their best work also gets a kick out of skewering and subverting the glossy conventions that you might expect of music’s biggest names. The duo come across as straight-talking punks who have graduated from drinking 40s at basement shows but still like the Vans and love the music. Forget Peter Saville – Willo and Brian they are as likely to reference PeeWee’s Playhouse as the political punk band Crass, or Kandinsky’s color theory as truck stop bumper stickers. In conversation they’re passionate, and not afraid to get weird. And so much the better: album art often feels stagnant, and their work is a refreshing shot of adrenaline. The duo’s imaginative merge of visual styles would probably give a purist art historian a heart attack. ![]()
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