Police State

Album Cover — Police State

A cinematic twilight gradient—lavender into Pacific blue—hangs over a palm-lined boulevard. The composition is one-point perspective: rows of tall palms and storefront signs funnel your eye straight down the street to a line of small fires licking across the asphalt. Police figures and bystanders sit in silhouette and haze; red and blue sirens glow at the vanishing point; a lone helicopter pins the sky. The Parental Advisory mark sits centered at the bottom like a stamp.

What it’s saying

Place, unmistakable: classic L.A. palms, low signage, wide street.

Mood, present-tense: smoke, sirens, and fire give the scene a live, uneasy charge.

Cinematic scale: symmetric boulevard and deep focus feel like a film still.

Continuity with the first cover (The Lost Tapes)
Where the debut leaned on archival, duotone memory, this sequel moves to full-color immediacy—same city, same unrest, but closer and more alive. From recollection to confrontation.