Album Packages for Arcade Fire and Bruce Springsteen Win Grammy Awards

Yesterday, Sunday February 12, The Recording Academy presented the 54th Grammy Awards, honouring “artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position”. Let’s take a look at the nominees and winners of categories that are of interest for our My Type of Music-loving readers.

This year the Grammy Awards cut 31 categories in a big overhaul, reducing the number of categories from 109 to 78. The most important change was the elimination of the distinction between male and female soloists and between collaborations and duo/groups in various genre fields (pop, rock, R&B, country and rap). Also, several categories for instrumental soloists were discontinued. Recordings in these categories now fall under the general categories for best solo performances. In the list of nominees and winners, the ones that interest us most on The FontFeed are of course categories 60 and 61, respectively Best Recording Package and Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package, and categories 77 and 78, for Best Short Form Music Video and Best Long Form Music Video. Here they are:

Best Recording Package

• Arcade Fire | Scenes From The Suburbs [ WINNER ]
  Art director | Caroline Robert
  Label | Merge Records

The album artwork for The Suburbs was released in eight different versions, with photographs by Gabriel Jones and art direction by Vincent Morisset. It was featured in the August 2010 episode of My Type of Music.

• Chickenfoot | Chickenfoot III
  Art director | Todd Gallopo
  Label | eOne Music

The album artwork for Chickenfoot III uses Bank Gothic. It was featured in the September 2011 episode of My Type of Music.

• Reckless Kelly | Good Luck & True Love
  Art directors | Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds
  Label | No Big Deal Records

• J.Viewz | Rivers And Homes
  Art director | Jonathan Dagan
  Label | Jorjia Music

• Jay-Z & Kanye West | Watch The Throne
  Art directors | Virgil Abloh & Riccardo Tisci
  Label | Def Jam

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package

• Bruce Springsteen | The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story [ WINNER ]
  Art directors | Dave Bett & Michelle Holme
  Label | Columbia Records

• Radiohead | The King Of Limbs
  Art directors | Donald Twain & Zachariah Wildwood
  Label | ATO Records

• Danny Elfman & Tim Burton | 25th Anniversary Music Box
  Art directors | Matt Taylor & Ellen Wakayama
  Label | WB

• Sting | 25 Years
  Art director | James Spindler
  Label | A&M Records/Cherrytree Records/UMe

• Wingless Angels | Wingless Angels – Deluxe Edition
  Art director | David Gorman
  Label | Mindless Records, LLC

Best Short Form Music Video

• Adele | Rolling In The Deep [ WINNER ]
  Video director | Sam Brown
  Video producer | Hannah Chandler
  Label | XL Recordings/Columbia Records

• Memory Tapes | Yes I Know
  Video director & producer | Eric Epstein
  Label | Carpark Records

• OK Go | All Is Not Lost
  Video directors | Itamar Kubovy, Damian Kulash Jr & Trish Sie
  Video producer | Shirley Moyers
  Label | Paracadute

• Radiohead | Lotus Flower
  Video director & producer | Garth Jennings
  Label | XL/TBD Records

• Skrillex | First Of The Year (Equinox)
  Video director | Tony Truand
  Video producers | David Gitlis & Noah Klein
  Label | Big Beat/Atlantic

• “Weird Al” Yankovic | Perform This Way
  Video director | “Weird Al” Yankovic
  Video producer | Cisco Newman
  Label | Jive Records

Best Long Form Music Video

• Foo Fighters | Foo Fighters: Back And Forth [ WINNER ]
  Video director | James Moll
  Video producers | James Moll & Nigel Sinclair
  Label | Exclusive Media Group/RCA Records/Back & Fort

• Beyoncé | I Am…World Tour
  Video directors | Ed Burke, Frank Gatson Jr. & Beyoncé Knowles
  Video producers | Beyoncé Knowles & Camille Yorrick
  Label | Columbia Records/Music World

• Kings Of Leon | Talihina Sky: The Story Of Kings Of Leon
  Video director | Stephen C. Mitchell
  Video producer | Casey McGrath
  Label | RCA/Kings of Leon

• A Tribe Called Quest | Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest
  Video director | Michael Rapaport
  Video producers | Robert Benavides, Debra Koffler, Eric Matthies, Frank Mele, Edward Parks & A Tribe Called Quest
  Label | Jive/Legacy

• TV On The Radio | Nine Types Of Light
  Video director | Tunde Adebimpe
  Video director | Michelle An & Caren Braj, Video producers
  Label | Interscope/Geffen/A&M

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