I'll Tell You A Great Album is a composite piece of work comprising twenty 9x9cm paintings, on beermats.
It grew from work looking at unreliable analogue reproduction in this age of the easy, perfect, digital copy, and also from arguing about music in the pub.
The title suggests the role of the artist as a dictator/arbiter of good taste. The albums aren't the commonly accepted classics, but personal choices. Though every record is a favourite of the artist, the source images we chosen to cover as wide a range of original styles and media as possible. Collage, vector art, printmaking, black and white and colour photography, pen and ink drawing, industrial design, graphics, oil painting, and screen printing on paper and vinyl are all represented.
All references to the album's maker and its title are removed. This is an attempt to bring the sleeve art back to being a piece of art. For the same reason, on the explanatory panel, the people who made the sleeve art are credited, whereas the bands who used that art are not.