Love Songs

Inside the image.

A square cover is dominated by a blue-toned portrait of a man, shown from the chest up and placed centrally. He faces the viewer with a composed, unsmiling expression. His long, dark hair is drawn back and falls in loose strands behind his head on the right. A collared shirt and jacket are visible at the bottom, partly cropped by the frame. The portrait fills most of the image, with his face near the centre and the shoulders extending towards both lower corners.

Behind him is a hazy mountain landscape: layered ridgelines cross the upper background, with a softer, lighter slope visible to the left of his head. The setting is indistinct and recedes behind the sharply prominent face. The whole image has a strong monochrome indigo-blue treatment, with deeper blue shadows around the edges and pale highlights on the forehead, cheeks and nose. The limited palette also colours the clothing and landscape, while the lettering provides the main contrast.

Large pale yellow lettering reading “Love Songs” sits across the top, centred and slightly curved in a flowing italic script with pronounced capitals. A second line, “Meic Stevens”, stretches across the lower portion over the man's chest and shoulders in matching pale yellow script. Both inscriptions are prominent and overlap the photographic image. There is no separate border. The cover appears to use a photograph with a pronounced blue colour cast; fine facial detail is visible, while the landscape is softened and slightly indistinct.