I just hap­pened to see the cover of hotly-tipped pro­ducer Baths’ new album for Anti­con Cerulean, and was struck by a clear trend to this year’s elec­tronic music cover design. Is the inspi­ra­tion for this rush of omi­nous sphere cov­ers related to the the futur­is­tic sound­ing year and it’s tit­u­lar movie 2010 — The Year We Make Con­tact (posters for the movie fea­ture plan­ets promi­nently as well). Or is the sin­gu­lar­ity approach­ing fill­ing every­one with the hope that Bar­be­lith is finally com­ing to push us into the super­con­text? Yeah. Any­way, check out this brief col­lec­tion of glo­ri­ous sphere covers:

Baths — Cerulean (Anticon)

Dig­i­tal Mys­tikz — Return II Space (DMZ)

Autechre — Over­steps (Warp)

Fly­ing Lotus — Cos­mo­gramma (Warp)

Clock Opera — A Piece of String (Maman)