I began some research into the general conventions of digipaks in the alternative rock genre and found some patterns in the way album covers are presented. If the album covers show the band, they usually depict the lead singer at the front of the image. The rest of the band members are behind the lead singer in a photo. The lead singer appears as the front face of the band and is often the most recognised member of the band, so putting them at the forefront of the photo makes the band more recognisable.
From the image of the Stereophonics album cover and the Razorlight cover you can see that both lead singers are at the front of the band members and both are looking out of the image at you. The other band members are looking away or appear less engaged with the viewer. This highlights importance of the lead singer and also allows people to understand the roles of the people in the picture without necessarily knowing who is who.
However I found with the majority of alternative rock digipaks that they often display abstract art or computer generated images. We had already found that the majority of One Republic's album covers feature art rather than an image of the band and this research showed that this was common for the whole genre. The image on the right is an example of the different kinds of album art within the genre, with many posing no specific relevance the title of the album or the name of the band.
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