Floodgate Companion by Robert Beatty
"Floodgate Companion is Robert Beatty’s debut monograph, a cosmic and immersive collection of artwork from the renowned album cover artist.
You may not know his name, but chances are you’ve seen his work. Robert Beatty is the artist behind those drippy, trippy, technicolour sleeves donning your favorite albums by Tame Impala, The Weeknd, The Flaming Lips, Neon Indian, Oneohtrix Point Never, Peaking Lights, Real Estate, and countless others. Taking aesthetic cues from airbrushed cosmic album art and avant garde animation of decades past, Beatty updates the style utilizing an idiosyncratic combination of digital and hand drawn techniques resulting in a timeless feel.
Created alongside a vast body of album cover and illustration work over the span of several years, Robert Beatty’s Floodgate Companion presents a parallel reality of unpublished artwork recalling the heyday of paperback science fiction, experimental animation, and outsider private-press psychedelic records. A cosmic and immersive artifact, Floodgate Companion is a gateway into a familiar yet alien world of imagined sci-fi novels and unheard music, shifting stylistically through airbrushed grotesques, abstract comics, and psychedelic op-art collages framed in asemic type." - Floating World
“Airbrushed insanity” - Daniel Lopatin, Oneohtrix Point Never
“It’s that sort of artwork which looks like it was never made by anyone, it simply exists in its own realm.” - Paul Pope (Battling Boy, THB)
“Like a time machine to another dimension, propelling you through a mental plane of the past and future all at once.” - Sammy Harkham (Crickets, Kramers Ergot)
Some minor wear but good condition, mayyyyybe a little fading of cover, see photos for condition.
112 pages, approx. 7.5" x 10.5", full color, clothbound hardcover with gold detail. 3rd Edition published by Floating World Comics, 2024.
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