Bright Eyes Win ‘Best Art’ Award For ‘The People’s Key’

Bright Eyes have won the ‘Best Art Vinyl 2011’ prize for the most impressive cover art of the past year.

The artwork to Conor Oberst and co’s latest album ‘The People’s Key’ was designed by Zack Nipper and features a hellfire motif.

Bright Eyes pipped runners-up Cults to the post, with Bon Iver surprisingly only coming third for his magnificent self-titled effort.

The top 10 reads as:

1. Bright Eyes – ‘The People’s Key’
2. Cults – ‘Cults’
3. Bon Iver – ‘Bon Iver’
4. Washed Out – ‘Washed Out’
5. Kasabian – ‘Velociraptor!’
6. The Strokes - ‘Angles’
7. Fleet Foxes – ‘Helplessness Blues’
8. Cut Copy – ‘Zonoscope’
9. Coldplay - ‘Mylo Xyloto’
10. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – ‘Belong’

The complete top 50 includes the likes of Battles, Wild Beasts and The Antlers. You can view the full list here.