Research into album covers.

I have been looking into different album cover within the genre of my chosen track using artists such as Death cab for cutie, the Shins and Muse. 

These are all album covers from the bands first albums the first two are very simplistic and have the same colour scheme of blue and white, whereas the other is slightly more complicated with an image and background.

These are the album covers of the bands most recent albums(2012) the first two have changed colour schemes but one is still simplistic but the other is more of an image and a background. The 3rd cover is similar to its first cover still with a background and an image. I think for my album cover it will be a mix of both simple and images with background and relate to the name of the album or band name.