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Dubious Records
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Band: Gnum
Album: Never Not Near

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Album cover background is roughly diagonally-bisected black in the top-left and deep sky blue in the bottom-right. The right third of the cover is dominated by a chunky and squared-off, exclamation point-inspired graphic. The colour of the top part of this stylized punctuation mark is medium red-violet and it straddles the diagonal black/blue background border fairly evenly. The band name is near the top half of this part of the exclamation mark, flush with the left and right sides, in a chunky black typeface, blending in with its background. The album title is in the bottom of this part of the exclamation mark, same typeface but in deep sky blue, blending in with its own background. Each word of the title is on its own line and is flush as possible with the left, right, and bottom edges. The “dot” of the exclamation mark is a black square overlaid with several concentric circles of gold: some solid, some of dots, or dashes, or diamond shapes. The entire left side is taken up by a duotone (medium red-violet for the shadows and deep sky blue for the highlights) stone angel in three-quarter view looking to her left, head bent forward, with the arc of her right wing grazing the left edge of the cover. Her right arm is bent, covering her abdomen and her left hand touches her right shoulder. She wears a huge yellow halo echoing the design of the dot of the exclamation point. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
January 6, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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Band: Trinity Test
Album: Fallout of Favour

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Album cover background is a yellowing reproduction of Piet Mondrian’s “Composition C (No.III) with Red, Yellow and Blue”. Except that the blue here is more of a muted cyan than the navy blue of the original. Nuclear fallout like snowfall is depicted in the coloured squares The silhouette of two young ladies, as if cut out of a navy blue colour filter gel, walking closely together in 1940’s winter coats and boots is overlaid on the left, taking up most of the height. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
January 1, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Band: Hector’s Helter-Skelter
Album: Dancing in Each Other’s Dreams

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Black and white album cover with a slight dark green shade. The left quarter is a solid almost-black, with four vertical light-grey art deco lines starting at the top and ending in shorter lengths from left to right, taking up this section’s left half. The right three-quarters is dominated by a vintage photo of a full-length, fully-nude woman in 3/4 view with a bob hairstyle, situated at the far right. Her left leg is slightly bent at the knee, and her right hand is extended toward the centre of the album cover. She is illuminated by a bright light from the bottom right, and on the wall immediately behind her is a dance of dramatic dark shadows and bright reflected light. The album title is ivory-white in narrow sans serif capital letters, situated across the bottom of the cover. The band name is a mid-tone grey in a similar typeface. It is rendered in a quarter-circle arc beginning at the lower left of the cover and ending near the woman’s face. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
December 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Band: Club Louie
Album: Be Bop-Tized

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Album cover featuring a back-alley door taking up most of the left half. Both the door and the wall it’s part of have evidently been hit with graffiti’s number of times, as they’ve been roller-painted over several times in dark red, army green, and a few shades of beige. In the door is a small picture of Louis Armstrong, beneath which the words “Club Louie” are crudely painted in yellow. Painted in army green on the wall to the right, at the same height, are the words “BE BOP•TIZED”. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Band: The Rudest Buddhist and The Hostile Apostle featuring The Raciest Atheist
Album: My Heaven's Not Your Heaven and Our Hells Are Not the Same

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Album cover with a starry black sky overlayed by a yin-yang symbol of saturated green and red. Inside each half of the symbol is a cartoon skeleton outlined in black Each skull occupies its respective dot of the yin-yang while the rest of each skeleton lies outside of it. One skeleton is wearing a space helmet with a radio antenna, and the other is sporting two alien antennae. There is a small back dot in the centre of the symbol, something like a hole in the centre of a vinyl record. The album title is centred near the top in a futuristic typeface reminiscent of the original Star Trek TV series’ logo. The album title is centred beat the bottom in a simple non-serif typeface. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
December 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Artist: Sam diSuarre
Album: Unset

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Album cover of the sun as it disappears behind the horizon. The view is from the edge of a lagoon, looking out toward the ocean. The sky changes from a very dark blue-grey to intense orange to a thin strip of bright yellow, all reflected back in the water. The photo is glitched such that there are many short, narrow horizontal bars whose colours and values contrast greatly with their surroundings. The picture is still recognizable as a sunset, though. Man, I suck at alt text but I’ll persevere. Artist’s name is rendered in a futuristic typeface in the top left in bright yellow against the dark sky. The album title is in the bottom right, same typeface in orange. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Band: The Lingering Torsos
Album: by default

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Album cover with a deep blue background. In the middle, we have a large white lily with purple edges and buds facing to your right, if you will. There’s an apparent semicircle in this arrangement, and the band’s name is arranged in an arc in order to complete a full circle. It’s rendered in capital yellow letters with a thin red outline. The album title appears small and centred near the bottom in a regular italic typeface, same purple as the lily. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Band: The Bloomin’ Be-ins
Album: Psychedelic Like a Relic

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Album Cover background features many translucent, overlapping circles of different colours and sizes. They are broken up by dozens of equally-spaced, narrow horizontal lines that change in colour from left to right. The band name and album title are rendered in a capitalized pink psychedelic font and outlined with a dark blue. They are curved in arcs in order to align in a circle: the band name centred approximately at the top left, and the album title centred approximately at the bottom right. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Band: Santas Más Nuevas
Album: Goddam the Glam

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Album cover of a square 2x2 grid of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe silkscreens, separated by narrow white margins. Each is heavily glitched with horizontal distortion lines. Top left: brightly colored image with warped upper-right corner. Top right: darkened, greenish version with strong horizontal striping. Bottom left: darker, red-toned image with a thick glitch bar obscuring the eyes. Bottom right: pale pastel version with a large rectangular glitch cutting through the face. Band name in a simple capitalized typeface is squeezed into the margin at top right, and album title is in the bottom right. DR logo in the bottom left. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Band: The Spitballs
Album: A Pharmacist Near M’Cyst

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Album cover of a calm shoreline under a blue sky. On the right side, from behind, sits a middle-aged couple on a rust-coloured park bench, dressed as though they’ve just been to church. The band name is rendered just left of centre near the top in a fun, informal typeface, in the same colour as the bench. A green loogie is situated immediately above the letter “I”. The album title is located in the bottom right, in the same blur as the sky. DR logo in the bottom left. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere
December 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Band: Frisquée
Album: Hit Me With Your Selfie Stick

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A heavily-saturated dark blue background with an orange-pink spotlight overtaking the foreground. In the spotlight are the two halves of a sliced strawberry just touching each other at the cheek, if you will, innards facing the dear viewer. The title is in a white script typeface near the top left, and the band name is set in a similar script typeface near the bottom left in pink, outlined in black. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
December 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Band: The SUDDEN
Album: All of The SUDDEN

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An album cover with a bright, solid red background. The band name is depicted in the top right in a white Copper Black typeface, and is repeated immediately beneath itself several times, a slightly darker gray with each iteration. After about a dozen reiterations, the title is the final line near the bottom, a light grey. A large yellow circle oriented above the title and toward the right tells us in an off-centred basic black typeface: “Everything The SUDDEN ever recorded on 1LP!”. Underneath that, we see the album’s catalogue number, TSR-0000001. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Band: Fant’sy or Fant ‘54
Album: Nights in Nathan’s Service Station

So obscure, no one knows for sure what their name actually was.

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Album cover featuring a three-port mechanic’s garage during closed hours. On each white garage door is a sign calling out one of its services: “AIR CONDITIONING”, “BRAKES & EXHAUST”, and “TRANSMISSIONS”. Each door has been vandalized with red spray paint by someone with shaky coordination apparently tagging outlined letters for the first time ever. Above and behind the garage, taking up about the top third of the cover, is a blue sky with puffy white clouds. This is where the band name is rendered in red, in a large typeface made up of what seems like cut-out capital letters. In front of the garage, taking up about the bottom quarter, are the clouds artificially reflected. This is where the title is rendered in white in the same typeface. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Band: Four Lttr Wrds
Album: Son of a Bitch

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Album cover of an old window comprised of four panes across, three down. The framing is of wood, painted white. Inside each pane, there is a capital letter in a typewriter typeface. The letters spell out the band name: “FOUR” in cyan, “LTTR” in magenta, and “WRDS” in Yellow. Just above the sill, in a spaced-apart grey semitransparent cursive typeface is the album title, all in lower case. DR logo in the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also hidden in there somewhere.
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Band: & and the Ampersands
Album: TU(TU)

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The main image of this album cover is reminiscent of the countdown leaders from old movies, freeze-framed at number 2. The design is offset, slightly blurred, and superimposed on itself three times in low opacity. The band name is rendered in three lines of red DYMO tape: &/AND/THE AMPERSANDS, and its base just barely touches the top of the main “2”. The album title is rendered in black DYMO tape, centred near the bottom. DR logo in the bottom right.
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Band: Buckingham Phallus aka The Buckingham Phalluses
7” single: Yer Heinous b/w Off a Cough

(Which band name is correct depends on whether you ask the lead singer or the rest of the band.)

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Black and white photos of both sides of a 7-inch single in a generic black paper sleeve with a hole exposing the record’s label (and the DR logo), by unsigned punk upstarts named Buckingham Phallus (according to what it says on side one), or The Buckingham Phalluses (as it reads on side two). The hole for the spindle is decidedly off-centre. “Made in Canada” is rendered in tiny white print at the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also in there somewhere. Black and white photos of both sides of a 7-inch single in a generic black paper sleeve with a hole exposing the record’s label (and the DR logo), by unsigned punk upstarts named Buckingham Phallus (according to what it says on side one), or The Buckingham Phalluses (as it reads on side two). The hole for the spindle is decidedly off-centre. “Made in Canada” is rendered in tiny white print at the bottom right. “WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords” is also in there somewhere.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Band: Sombreros Make the Softest Daggers
Album: Sombreros Make the Softest Daggers

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Album cover photo taken from below features electric work affixed to a white ceiling that helps to form a resemblance of a face: two unlit light fixtures are the eyes, bright fluorescent tubes make for a very illuminated nose, and the album title in teeny black type makes a line that looks like a slit for a mouth. The band name is near the top of the cover rendered in a pleasant serif font, as is the album title. DR logo in the bottom right. WarrenOpheim/DubiousRecords
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Band: Aftermath
Album: Home Economics

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Album cover of a terracotta-coloured public wall for handbills that has been recently “refreshed”, leaving a multitude of staples and bits of paper announcements behind. A straight, well-defined shadow’s edge is cast from the top left to the bottom middle, so that the area to the left of the edge is in sunlight and the area to the right is in the shade. The band name, Aftermath, appears near the top of the album cover, almost entirely in the shade, in a typewriter-style font. The album title, “Home Economics” appears in the same font, though much smaller, toward the bottom. “Home” is situated in the sunlight and “Economics”, in the shade. “Warren Opheim/Dubious Records” is hidden in there somewhere, too.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Band: The Pompidon’ts
Album: It’s ALWAYS Too Late!
Square image. Exterior of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, looking up at about four storeys of vertical piping in colours blue, green, and white. Two of the pipes terminate at ground level in O-shaped exhausts, representing the two O’s of the album title. The band name and album title are rendered in bright yellow in a lively and informal retro-inspired font (think 1950’s) with chunky serifs.
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM