Foo Fighters album joins iconic artworks for digital colouring book

16 May 2020, 08:00 | Updated: 16 May 2020, 08:06

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl with the band's In Your Honour album inset. Picture: 1. Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy 2 Sony Music UK

The Colouring Sessions was launched by Sony Music UK ahead of Mental Health Awareness week to help people relax during the pandemic.

Foo Fighters are among a plethora of artists whose album artworks have been selected for a new digital colouring in book called The Colouring Sessions.

The project, launched by Sony Music UK, is a brand-new mindfulness project based around a colouring-in and relaxation for music fans.

Dave Grohl and co's fifth studio album, In Your Honour, is among some of the album artworks transformed into a blank template for the project, which seeks to encourage everyone to take time out, while looking back on iconic LP covers.

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For the programme, Sony Music UK has opened up their vast archive of beautiful, striking and creative album artworks from the past 70 years. They include Elvis Presley's self-titled album and Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced, Little Mix's DNA, George Ezra's Staying At Tamara's and Carole King's Tapestry.

The site also hosts a series of specially created playlists to complement the colouring sessions, creating the ultimate music-lover’s mindful environment.

The templates, which can be coloured digitally or printed at home, are available now at www.thecolouringsessions.com.

See the template for Foos' In your Honor here:

Foo Fighters In Your Honour is among some of the albums you can colour in. Picture: Sony Music UK

Sean Bullingham, Pretty Good Digital, the design team behind The Colouring Sessions, says: “When we first heard the idea for The Colouring Sessions, we thought it was the perfect project to give people some respite from the ‘everyday's-the same' routine of lockdown. Like all of the best ideas, its beauty is in its simplicity; colouring and relaxing to music are universal qualities, combining the two to aid relaxation and uncluttering the mind seemed like a natural fit.”

Talking about the inspiration behind the project, Heidi Boston-Thompson, Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Sony Music UK says: “We’re lucky to have a selection of some of the most beautiful, striking and creative album artwork of all time at our fingertips. We wanted to give our artists’ audiences the chance to take a moment out, explore their own creativity, drive focus and ultimately aid relaxation. By pairing music with the simple exercise of colouring in, we hope to create a mindful environment and a sense of calm for the audience.”

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