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David Shrigley, Jason Mraz, Record cover art

David Shrigley’s Designs for Jason Mraz’s “We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things” Album

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Apparently, Jason Mraz took the title for his eighth album from a David Shrigley cartoon. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find the cartoon, but I’ve found Mraz’s album and love the designs.

We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things was released in May 2008, preceeded by three limited edition CD singles, We Sing (No. 1), We Dance (No. 2) and We Steal Things (No. 3) that was only available in a bundle from Mraz’s site and is consequently rare. Initally released on CD, it was also released on limited edition double LP. The album was quickly re-released as a limited edition double CD with DVD. The first CD with two extra tracks and the second including all thwe tracks from the three limited edition singles that preceded the album’s release. And in 2011, the album was reissued on vinyl . Again as a lmited edition; the music on three sides and the fourth side engraved with Shrigley designs.

Front and rear covers.
Album’s inner spread.

Even the record labels have been illustrated by Shrigley:

The record labels. Unfortunately, it is difficult to photograph the etched designs on side D.

And the inner sleeves are a bit special:

The inner sleeves.

One single, I’m Yours, was released as a seven-inch vinyl record.

The seven-inch single cover.

Several others were issued on CD or CD-r. These include: two versions of Lucky, one sung in English, featuring Colbie Caillat, and a Spanish version featuring Ximena Sarina.

Two Lucky CD-single covers.

Other singles are the three limited editions that preceded the release of the fiull album:

We Sing, We Dance and We Steal things CD covers.

The final three singles were Make it Mine, Butterfly and a digital only release of Coyotes.

The Make It Mine, Butterfly and Coyotes single covers.


I’m amazed that David Shrigley went to so much trouble to produce all this work. And kudos till Jason Mraz for commissioning it all. I will admit, though, that while I enjoy the artwork, I haven’t actually listened to the record yet.