Start Something - Artwork

Artwork

The album features a new gothic style logo with German blackletter typeface, replacing the old logo used for Fake Sound Of Progress. It would in itself be replaced for the bands next album, but featured on several of the bands singles taken from this album. Sometimes the lyrics "but even through your doubts, we will still be here", taken from We Still Kill The Old Way, are written below the logo. The figure at the front of the artwork wears blue jeans, a black hoodie and a baseball cap and is meant to resemble lead singer Ian Watkins, who alongside Jamie Oliver designed the cover. At the time Jamie was also an acclaimed artist with his work being displayed in exhibitions depicting Rhondda life. There are slight variations with the cover in different territories with some showing the shadow of the figure with wings - either angels wings or more likely bird wings. This is best depicted in an official promotional colour wallpaper the band released for fans. Whilst it has never been clarified, the city in the background is believed to depict Los Angeles in the United States where the album was recorded and mixed. Ian Watkins said that he regarded artwork as "just as important as the music", and in January 2010 reflected back on some of the Lostprophets' artwork saying "I remember doing the ‘Start Something’ record and compiling the inlay which is a collage of two years of our lives. It was so much fun. I’d sit there for hours looking at the booklet and all the little pictures. I did that to all the albums I bought."

The album was titled Start Something for two reasons. Firstly it was meant to motivate people out of complacency with Ian Watkins saying "We spent the last three years touring and meeting loads of people who were like, 'I'd love to do this and that', but they never had the drive to get up off their asses and do it. Start something. Start anything." Secondly it stood in contrast to their first album which was meant to be just a demo and thus the band saw this album as their first musical step and the first to accurately reflect their ability.