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Friday Fronts - Ballads of Suburbia

I don't think I've ever seen a cover that captures the mood of a book so perfectly. Ballads of Suburbia is dark, gritty, raw. And it's cover suits it perfectly.

Ignoring the ingenious layout - I LOVE the fonts they chose, and the fact they just blocked it out for emphasis pleases me immensely - take a closer look at the details. The churned up sand. How the fence stretches into nothing. (It reminds me a bit of a prison, actually, which is what the suburbs are for these characters.) The graffiti on the slide and duck.

So perfect.