This Empty Northern Hemisphere
Artist: Gregory Alan Isakov
Year: 2009
Description: The sepia-toned cover of This Empty Northern Hemisphere features an older man absorbed in a vintage listening device, capturing the album’s spirit of quiet introspection and nostalgia. Bathed in warm light against a pale, empty background, the image evokes themes of solitude, memory, and the search for connection. The antique apparatus symbolizes listening across time — tuning in to echoes of the past — while the contrast between warmth and emptiness mirrors Isakov’s music: intimate, melancholic, and profoundly human.