“Oh my God yeah, nobody wanted it. Management, band, label – everybody thought I was out of my mind. But I knew the moment I saw it that that was the album cover. There’s a sense of unabashed in-your-face sexuality. It’s got a sense of humor, it’s playful, and it looks like someone who’s just been dancing their ass off. And that’s what this record’s about.”
–Frontman Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters explaining the bands album cover to BBC after a four-year silence with the release of their new album called ‘Night Work’ out on June 29th.
Note: “The music on ‘Night Work’ is inspired by “the hedonism and liberation and tragedy of the 80s”. All themes represented on the cover by a Robert Mapplethorpe photo of ballet dancer Peter Reed’s flexed buttocks.
Here’s an oldie but always goodie from S.S’ off their 2006 album ‘Tah-Dah’
