Welcome to the world of Art Vinyl and the opportunity to express your views on the best record cover art of 2012. Now in its 8th year, this unique award compiles the global opinion on the best of art and design in music.

For Best Art Vinyl 2011, it was Bright Eyes' album The Peoples Key with its striking layered image of an intense fire burning which topped the list of the year's favourite sleeve designs. Previous winners have included Klaxons' Surfing the Void with its playful image of a cat in a spacesuit, Thom Yorke's The Eraser from regular Radiohead contributor Stanley Donwood, and even work from the sixteenth century for The Fleet Foxes eponymous LP by Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel.