Steely Dan-inspired 'Black Cow' Art Print Beetle so it gets a poster

so it gets a poster treatment: this terrific vintage 80s horror paperback with both 'haunting' and 'minutes' nicely visualized

and the version you receive also won't have my watermark

Doves share a habit with many other alternative indie rock bands in that they have a down- or mid-tempo song as the album finisher

Then I did a bit more research and learnt that the B-side to this single is a version of 'Dominion' called -- you guessed it -- 'Ozymandias'

Steely Dan-inspired 'Black Cow' Art Print Beetle so it gets a posterThere are no decent or trustworthy explanations for what a "black cow" is, in case you were wondering: Fagen implies at one point in some interview that it might be a kind of drink, but, you know, really? What's clear is that the song is about a failed, or doomed, or doomed and quickly failing relationship, likely due to drugs and addiction and or prostitution. So this magnificent vintage retro pulp paperback cover captures the tail end of that