Candy Apple Blue - Breakthrough! (Cover Art)

Candy Apple Blue - Breakthrough! (Official Cover Art)

Album Cover Art Concept:

Our album's cover art concept functions as a visual manifesto of the current-day LGBTQ+ experience. The graphic design illustrates a community under global attack. Ascending as guardians from heaven, the pink-triangle spaceships are there to beam us up to safety from the current-day systemic hostility. The spermatozoa swimming around the cloud symbolize the biological imperative that we are, in fact, born this way. The lipstick-gun represents our way of beautifying this ugly world, all while fending off our enemies. Hoyt's facial expression captures the weary resilience of a generation, once more, forced to confront historical cycles of prejudice and animosity. I hope the album's cover art evokes a real sense of urgency, like the propaganda posters of the World War I and World War II eras. My artwork is a call to action, demanding the recognition of our survival, our strength, and our resistance.

Let's continue to fight the good fight! Stay strong, stay positive, and we will "Breakthrough!" 

Sincerely, Carly Emerick

Pre-order on 8/14 here: (Link coming soon.)

Official release date: August 28th, 2026