Secret 7"// Brief

1) Black Sabbath : Age of Reason 

Secret 7’’s first foray into the dark art of heavy metal! Taken from their 19th studio album released in 2013; the first to feature original members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler for 35 years. The album topped the charts in over 50 countries.

2) Elbow - Grounds for Divorce 

This is a stomper of a single taken from their album The Seldom Seen Kid in 2008; which went on to win the coveted Mercury Music Prize that year. Our track Grounds For Divorce also went on to claim the Ivor Novello award for Best Contemporary Song the following year.

3) Jake Bugg - Strange Creatures

At age 19 Jake had already released two successful albums. Strange Creatures is some beautiful stripped back bonus material from the recording sessions for his second record Shangri La. Produced by Rick Rubin, the man with the magic touch, at his home in Malibu.

4) Lorde - Team

Every year we like to mix established musicians with emerging ones. We were thinking the latter when we first approached Lorde but she raced ahead notching up a #1 single and a critically acclaimed album. Team is taken from that, and will be her next UK single in February.

5) Massive Attack - Karmacoma 

It’s a huge honour for us to work with Massive Attack, a band who visual output has been as important to us as their music. Karmacoma was a single from their second album Protection released in 1995.

6) Roxy Music - Virginia Plain 

The first of our two glam rock anthems and an all time favourite of ours! Virginia Plain was the first single the band released back in 1972. Although it didn’t originally feature on their debut album Roxy Music, later pressings did include it. Do have a read of the lyrics, they are brilliantly bonkers.

7) T. Rex - Get It On  

If ever we need cheering up we reach for this song! Released in 1971 it spent weeks at #1 and went on to sell millions around the world. It’s taken from the album Electric Warrior which has one of our all time favourite artworks done by Hipgnosis, a design group that featured the late great Storm Thorgerson.

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1. Your design must not include the artist’s name or the song title - 

it’s a secret after all.

2. Concentrate your design on what will be the front, only this will 

be visible on our exhibition walls.

3. Dimensions should be 182mm x 182mm, with a 3mm bleed. That’s 188mm x 188mm in total. 

The bleed won’t be visible, so bear that in mind.

4. Your file must be produced in CMYK so it’s setup to be printed. 

Any PMS specials will be converted. Metallic or fluorescent inks cannot 

be reproduced.

5. Your file must be 300dpi.

6. Your file must be saved as either a Tiff, JPEG, EPS or PDF.

7. Do try and reduce the size of your file as much as possible.

8. You can submit a sleeve design for as many of our tracks as you like.

9. You must upload designs by the 17th February 2014.

10. If we email you with the good news that you’ve made it into the show please keep it a secret. It makes for a much better project! We are asking for your name, website and twitter handle when you submit a design so we can shout about all our designers once Record Store Day has passed and the secrets are out.

All of the submissions will be reviewed by Secret 7’’, Universal Music, Mother London & It’s Nice That. Where possible we involve the musicians in that process too.

We will contact everyone to tell them whether or not they’ve made it into the show.