Behind The Artworks: Good Teal - Good Teal (2025)

I reached out to a past collaborator named Carina Gutierrez, who would also end up doing the artwork for our very first two singles. She gave me a LOT of concept art + scratches to work with and I held onto it for years before the band fully took shape. I knew before we released anything that this was going to be our cover, so I wrote music to fit that, I think. After the record was done earlier this year, I came across this insane artist from Liverpool, named Eloise Nuttall, and lost my head. She’s super sick. She painted the concept art over by hand and gave it a much-needed facelift with a lot more detail and character. It was perfect.

I was really attracted to this cover because I was looking at a hivemind of punks. Figures that look like they could span different species, all bleeding into one another in a single euphoric moment. It felt no different from being at a show or even us as a band coming from different musical and personal backgrounds. It’s hard to understand what you’re looking for at first, but then it becomes communal. I guess I was kind of going for a spiritual successor to Ernie Barnes' “Sugar Shack”, a classic piece of black art and showing black joy, with the mild texture of a Frank Frazetta painting.