Journal for Plague Lovers (with outer slipcase)

Cover art controversy

The album cover art uses an original painting, Stare (2005), by Jenny Saville, who also contributed artwork for The Holy Bible. The top four UK supermarkets stocked the CD in a plain slipcase, after the cover was deemed "inappropriate" due to the belief that the red on the boy's face was blood. Bradfield said the decision was "utterly bizarre", and commented:
You can have lovely shiny buttocks and guns everywhere in the supermarket on covers of magazines and CDs, but you show a piece of art and people just freak out.

Apart from the slip case this is identical to release:f306a6db-9b0d-407c-ba8e-f1f73ab78f84