Alex Ross snarks Deutsche Grammophon in his latest New Yorker essay:
(The great old Yellow Label seems to be concentrating these days on artists who photograph well.)
These days? The marketing experts at Universal have been foisting DG’s too-often disappointing musicians on the record-buying public with pretty pictures for nearly a decade (here’s one example, mutated by my pal Photoshop Insurgent). As one wag, overheard at J&R a few years ago, said about the label’s newer releases and reissues, “If the face ain’t pretty, it’s probably a safe bet.”