Kings of Leon 'Come Around Sundown' Digipak Analysis

Front of Digipak

The background image suggests a relaxed feeling to the music it contains, with ambient reds and yellows to create a calming warm feel, which is also helped by the palm tree leaves that (in the theory of semiotics) suggest warm thoughts and peaceful weather. The text has been positioned at the top and bottom in relatively small lettering as to not spoil or loose the effect the image creates. The text font also looks calm and tropical, suggesting a holiday location creating a sense of the music inside will take you away into a holiday in your mind.

Back of Digipak

In this image is the band that has been silhouetted against the setting/rising sun, once again creating warm and welcoming feelings to the audience. The tracks have been put on the reverse side to the conventional left to right, they have put the track number after the name rather than before. They also moved it to the top right as to not spoil the image. The background image has also been placed in a border, this makes the image look like a post card 'wish you were here'. It also gives a place to put the bar code and legal copyrights and acknowledgements as to not spoil the warm colours and visuals of the image.

Inside left of Digipak

This is kept generally quite plain as to keep the cool calm theme that the outer casing has created. In the centre you can see the letters KOL (meaning Kings of Leon). This is the main subject of this side being the largest text on it, this instantly along with the colours in the O attracts the eye to read. In the letter O is a palm tree keeping to the theme of the front cover. Directly below the letter O is the letter A and this gives a possible clue to the reason why they picked this font, The letter A is actually in the shape of the palm tree, which could have been intentional because we then make an unconscious link between them both. 

Inside right of Digipak

The disc would actually cover the circular image, therefore the audience would only initially see the the plain cream colour that is through out the Digipak. This is until they take the disk out and the image of the setting sun with the sunspots going vertically up the centre is revealed. This is a last resort to tell the audience that the music should take them to a happy and tranquil place. The significance of the sunspots are that it creates the thought of warm feelings.