Devil's Luck
An album by Melisa Kelly and the Smokin’ Crows
Album and single cover design, video trailer design.
Melisa Kelly and the Smokin’ Crows are a Glasgow based funk and soul band. I produced their album cover, single cover and trailer film for their album Devil’s Luck which launched in August 2018. An LP of the album was produced (design below), as well as a CD and digital release.
For the single cover, we felt it was important to establish Melisa’s image, so we literally used an extreme close up of her face. The same image is painted onto the stage door of a theatre in the album cover, where Melisa has apparently just smoked a cigarette before making her way on stage. The album contemplates ideas of success which made us go for the stage door cover as it represents a liminal threshold between normal life and the stage.
Check out the album on Spotify below - it’s fab! I think my favourite song is Met Your Match or I Never…
Featuring Melisa Kelly, Laura Borealis, Jenny Douglas, Dean Cargill, Lawrence O’Brien, Stefan Celosia, Micah Johnston, Chris Storr, Tom Pickle, Charles Dearness, Michael Owers, Jed Potts and Katie Apple Oswell
Compositions by Melisa Kelly
Produced by Graeme Young and Bruce Wallace
Horn Arrangements by Tom Pickle
Assistant Will O’Brien
Recorded and Mixed at Chamber Studios
Mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road Studios