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3 Album Covers That Look Like the Middle Stage of an ‘Animorphs’ Transformation

And if you’ve never seen an Animorphs book cover then we can’t help you, sorry.

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Think back to the covers of the Animorphs book series, and you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about here. You know, that mid-transformation stage where the kid is halfway to becoming a rat.

Here are three album covers that give off the same type of energy as the grim-visaged animal children who haunted our middle school dreams.

‘Diamond Dogs’ by David Bowie

David Bowie’s eighth album, Diamond Dogs, was released in May 1974, and the album art is still as striking today as it was back then. On first glance, it looks innocuous enough: Like Bowie is just lounging naked on the floor. But the full spread album cover reveals Bowie as a half-man, half-dog creature.

Belgian artist Guy Peellaert painted the spread based on a photograph by Terry O’Neil. The dog body was based on a Great Dane that Bowie brought to the photo session. Peellaert later said he didn’t originally intend to paint the cover art, but found the concept........

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