Blasphème au paradis #[nn]

From Les Requins Marteaux comes this striking 2006 French album, *Blasphème au paradis*, whose cover immediately commands attention: a stout, bald, winged figure floats serenely amid a swirling blue sky crowded with flies and winged insects, his expression blissfully content despite the unsettling company. The juxtaposition of heavenly flight and buzzing, iridescent flies gives the image a wonderfully off-kilter, darkly comic atmosphere that feels entirely at home in Les Requins Marteaux's adventurous catalog. It's the kind of cover that stops you cold and makes you genuinely curious about the world inside.