Here, I could insert one of a few clichés about pictures (they say 1000 words!) or covers (don’t judge a book by one), or I could just cut to the chase: Album covers, book covers, etc. are some of the best reasons to own physical media, and each year brings a new crop of aesthetically pleasing squares for us to behold. We’ve rounded up 20 album covers that we love staring at, and we hope you’ll enjoy gazing at them, too. An album’s appearance on this list says nothing of its musical quality, however some album covers were judged based on their relation to the music therein. Here they are: