You me at six, advert analysis

I thought I would look at album adverts from bands that have a similar style to the artist i'm using that are shown in magazines. Most album adverts (from the same genre of my artist) will only be shown in music magazines such as Kerrang! or RockSound. This is one I saw that was in Kerrang! it is for the album 'Hold Me Down' from the band 'You Me At Six'. This advert has used the same picture that is used on the album cover, instead of just putting a picture of the album on the advert. One thing I thought was strange about this advert was that it didn't show any reviews or star ratings, this is something that I have seen on most of other album adverts even for ones in other genres. In the bottom right hand corner it shows the label that the band were signed to when recording the album and where it was recorded. Centred at the bottom is the website that the album can be downloaded online. The colour of the advert is quite dark and fades into black towards the edges of the pages, there is colour splashes of bright colour, this is from the text and the splashes that are used in the album artwork. This advert doesn't have much on it but because the album art work is very bold and creative, it doesn't need to add much more to it to attract attention and I think that if it did, it would look over done and far too busy.