Difficile à dire. C'est une pochette très énigmatique. Personnellement, ça me fait penser à cette famille de Chinois qui refusait de quitter sa maison qui devait être détruite pour laisser place à je ne sais quel immense projet de construction dont nos amis de l'Empire du Milieu ont le secret. On voit la maison sur un promontoire de terre, en plein milieu d'un immense trou ou terrain vague. Mais ça ne peut pas être cette histoire sur la pochette, qui date de 1986.

Qui sait si c'est une histoire du même genre. Mais là, je n'ai pas trouvé l'origine...

Ok, j'ai trouvé ça sur Rate Your Music. Pour les petits curieux.

"4AD art aficionados may know that Spleen and Ideal's front cover is a photograph taken by Colin Gray, quite on the spur of the moment, as he and his girlfriend were driving through Trafford Park. For years I assumed that the snapshot had been taken at the very moment of detonation - but in fact what we see is essentially a botched demolition. The huge warehouse so typical of those in Manchester and Liverpool had failed to collapse following the initial explosion, and was thus caught in this bizarre, tilted stasis - almost as though it was forever falling (it stayed this way for several weeks, apparently). The white plastic star was lying around on the neighboring wasteland, and the red cloak just happened to be in Gray's car at the time. A few moments of faffing later and an intriguing and very memorable image had been captured. No superimposing, no airbrushing, and no darkroom trickery - just getting out there and making the most of whatever the camera finds."

Kiffant comme histoire.