Today’s cover story is about the sleeve of the second album by complex British electronic musicians Autechre. It looks like a close up of sand-dunes but actually these are high hills, created by volcanic ash many years ago and later washed by rain and shaped by wind for thousands of years. Amazed by the soft colours, 12edit talked to the cover designer Ian Anderson to find out why he used Nick Meyers’ photo of Honey Valley in Cappadocia.

“Surreal otherworldly natural found image no filters / glitch ambient echoing music contrasting with Incunabula. Light / colour not location.”