Digipak Analysis.

The Blur album, Modern Life is Rubbish, at the time really signified at a modern day Britain, coincidently, and really played a part in defining the Britpop era. The front cover of the album really set's the tone, it's simply an image of a train on duty, But as is usually the case with Blur, there's more meaning to it and that.

This captures what Britain was like in the early 90's, there wasn't much to shout about, especially when it came to British music, due to Grunge era being in full flow, and the opening page into the dikipak explores this even further, it consists of the four members sitting of the band sitting on the train, looking glum, continuing to reitterate the point.

As you begin to flick through the pages, you get a copy of the lyrics to all the songs in the album, along with key's telling you how to play all the songs, the lyircs takes us to the second last page of the digipak. I believe this page really bodes in well with the lyrics in my opinion, and this is because on the page is a personal message from the band stating "Friends, you know who you are, you know we're grateful", to me this implies Blur know who their fans are, and want to share their music with them, and the best way to do this is by letting them know how to learn the songs. To finish with, the back page of the digipak is just another image of the train going by.

 
From this album artwork as a whole, I've decided that I believe Blur could be telling a narrative through their artwork, they start off by telling us that Britain is in a poor situation, and that as a band they were trying change this, but in the mean time, Briatin was continuing to go through this poor direction, which in my opinion is very clever, and imaginative.