This time around, I wanted to produce a sleeve completely different to The Kundalini Target vinyl artwork, by using a more futuristic design plan. 
Steve wanted the iconic Bullring building from Birmingham on the sleeve, to tie in with the album title taken from the book, Peace City West and Peace City East, which is a story about a nuclear war that affects Birmingham and Minsk. 
He also wanted something similar in appearance to the background colouring on the album cover of If Only I Could Remember My Name by David Crosby, which was released in 1971. I produced various versions of the sleeve, including pictures of the Bullring & Steve with fades & different colours, but it was not working as it resembled the Crosby sleeve too much & the Bullring building is too modern to carry off a seventies effect.  
I decided it would be better to follow the same mood of the Last Days Of The Old World single sleeve, bringing the colour element of the sun and the rainbow through to the album sleeve. To tie this into the theme of nuclear war, I portrayed the aftermath of a nuclear strike through the sky, around the Bullring building, which itself could resemble a spaceship; so there is a kind of Alien film feel to it as well. I had to translate Steve's ideas into a working image, so that involved reworking the ideas until it matched what he was imagining.  

Stefan Duerr, photographer, video director & sleeve designer for ocean colour scene and Steve Cradock