In need of a visual

I’ve always loved album art work. I sometimes even buy 12″ because of their innovative sleeve design. However, because of the MP3 revolution, album art has become a lesser part of the music experience. Thanks to Signal vs Noise I found this post about the site We Are Hunted. The concept of the site is similar to Hype Machine’s Popular section, it aggregates the most popular tracks in the blogosphere. But there is one important distinction, We Are Hunted displays prominent art work for each song. It’s interesting to see how that makes such a huge difference in the user experience. Music and album art need each other. Maybe there will now be a renaissance of that relationship?