The album artwork for White Lies' album 'To Lose My Life' was nominated as a contender for best art vinyl 2009 by the website artvinyl.com, and ended up coming seventh. I'm personally attracted to this sort of art style, and particularly enjoy the use of simplistic and otherwise meaningless forms to create an interesting and eye-catching design.
The focus here is the three industrial chimneys, placed at the centre of the photograph, which has been taken using an infra-red lense to capture maximum definition. The high-contrast effect that this method of photography provides for the photo gives exactly the right overall feel, and the square cropping only adds to the impact of the design. The symbolism that these three tall, looming towers are given by the photographic style and their placement takes their meaning beyond its meaning as an object or functioning item. They become symbolic of something intimidating (conveyed by the camera angle), something to do with death (as conveyed by the title of the album) and something big/meaningful/important (conveyed by the central placement of the chimneys and their huge size when juxtaposed with the size of the telegraph poles and houses around the base). Nothing else in the area captured by the photograph is as large, and the fact that they are extending into the black sky could be interpreted as another piece of symbolism.
Looking at the text, the font is all in capitals and appears to be a gothic syle sans serif, suggesting modernism with a hint of the rerospective. The flipping of the 'i' in 'Lies' could be significant of multiple different things, including inversion of normality,
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