Released on American independent label Sub Pop in 1989, Nirvana’s debut, Bleach, features a black-and-white negative image of a frenetic live shot, laid out with a cheap and nasty punk feel reflecting the raw aesthetic of the nascent Seattle grunge scene. Nirvana rose in the age of the CD, when the most effective covers essayed conceptual and graphic simplicity to adapt to a shrunken packaging space, down from vinyl’s 12-inch square to less than 5” x 5”. The covers of those three albums tell a story in themselves. But it came at a terrible cost to Cobain himself, who died by his own hand in April 1994, aged 27. The group’s impact was phenomenal, rebooting rock with a primal power that restored guitar music’s standing as an artistic, generational and commercial force. Nirvana released only three albums during the short life of their leader, Kurt Cobain.
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