![]() How do you feel about the cover and the record? Speaking to Stewart from his studio in east London, and Les from his home in Sussex, they explained their part in this unique document. Painted by famous British horror and fantasy illustrator, Les Edwards, it was a farewell to rave, the scene in which Liam had forged his and one had been killed off the year of Music’s release by the government’s Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. Inside is no less impressive, the gatefold conceived to foldout into a landscape portrait of some ravers cutting a rope bridge back to a city full of riot police and industrial decay. The cover, designed by artist Stewart Haygartth, is a shrieking metallic face that’s often compared to ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch, but also looks like Han Solo frozen in carbonite from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and is one the most striking from the period. ![]() Liam Howlett’s unique mixture of German techno and raw punk attitude isn’t the only thing that’s iconic about The Prodigy’s Music for the Jilted Generation there’s the artwork too.
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