Sing it loud, sing it proud
Iconic album artwork can become just as timeless as the music it envelopes; think Warhol’s peeling banana for Velvet Underground & Nico, or Peter Blake’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band collage. Instantly recognisable classics.

Secret 7” is the annual project celebrating album artwork in all its splendour. What’s the concept? Well, first they gather together a curated list of culturally important artists, designers and creatives – this year’s line-up boasts Anish Kapoor, Jenny Holzer, Sir Paul Smith, Gavin Turk, Juno Calypso and Tatty Devine – then each one creates a bespoke one-of-a-kind sleeve design for seven iconic tracks.

This year’s tracks include, Etta James’ At Last, Jack Garratt’s Worry, CHVRCHES’s Clearest Blue, The Jam’s Art School, John Lennon’s Imagine, Max Richter’s Dream 3 and Tame Impala’s The Less I Know The Better.

Each record is then be pressed 100 times to vinyl and wrapped in it’s unique cover and, on 4th May, you have a chance to buy these covetable records: each one at the uniform price of £50. The catch? The buyer won’t know which record they are buying until they’ve handed over their cash. Now there’s a lucky dip we can really get behind.

On top of all this, there will also be a pop-up recording studio; warm up the vocal cords, nip in, belt it out, and leave with a copy of your recording cut to a 7″ single. So get practising those vocal scales and Diana Ross-esque shrieks. Here’s your chance to realise those rockstar aspirations.

Secret 7″ runs from 10th April through 3rd May at Somerset House
Check out the full programme here

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