Rihanna reveals new album cover, title
We still don't have a release date for Rihanna's forthcoming eighth record, but on Wednesday night, the singer revealed her album title and art in style.
At an event at Los Angeles' MAMA Gallery, Rihanna revealed the front and back artwork for her new album, as well as its name—ANTI.
Contemporary artist Roy Nachum, who also had a hand in the art for Kanye West's 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, is behind the ANTI covers. According to a release, the album cover depicts "a young girl with a gold crown covering her eyes, and a black balloon strung tightly to her wrist."
Rihanna shared the album art and title on her Instagram.
The title:
Sans release date.
The front cover:
The back cover:
ANTI will also have a Braille component, described in the release as "the first time an album has ever incorporated physical Braille." The seven oil paintings revealed at the event were inscribed with Braille poetry, and the album's inside artwork will also include Braille, "[allowing] people who are blind to experience an entire album by touch."
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