I met Julia and Jason of The Capsules through Urinine Records label owner Sid over all-you-can-eat Mongolian barbecue. Like most of the bands I worked with through Urinine Records, I hadn't heard their music before. But this time, I really liked what I heard. I was listening to a lot of Low at the time, and The Capsules had a similarly understated sound, though decidedly more dreampop—gauzy and ethereal rather than sparse and glacial. We talked about creating artwork that was more evocative than literal, and they gave me the job.

Once again, I found myself returning to photographs from those first four rolls of film I'd shot in Chicago. The cover combines two images: an unintentionally blurry photograph of Michael Hayden's Sky's the Limit installation at O'Hare and a sheet of semi-opaque plastic taped inside a storefront window, concealing the remodeling work behind. The original airport photograph was intensely vibrant, but I screened it back considerably, allowing its colors to emerge softly through the plastic. Neither photograph was particularly ethereal on its own, but together they were definitely more than the sum of their parts.

I was a huge fan of Century Expanded, though it's not expansive enough for most applications. This felt like the perfect opportunity. For the album title, Reverser, I flipped the opening “re,” creating a loose mirror image of the final “er.” The two bright points of light on the cover were already in the original photograph, so positioning the band's name and album title beside them seemed obvious. A faint arc connecting the lights was a nod to the song “Lift Off,” which suggested much of the imagery throughout. This was music meant to take you somewhere rather than keep you grounded in the place you already were.

The tray card's shot originally included an airplane wing, but Julia didn't want it there—she had a fear of flying or airplanes or both. In any case, the wing was out, and the result was all the better for it. The sky above the clouds, with sunlight creeping into the frame, could suggest any number of things—escape, heaven, the possibility of something beyond what you can see.