The second studio album of Belgium band Hooverphonic, and the first with singer Geike Arnaert. The picture on the cover is taken inside the Atomium in Brussels. The place was in 2013 chosen by CNN as the most bizarre monument in Europe. It was built as the main building for the World Expo in 1958, and resembles an iron crystal, enlarged 165 bilion times.
André Waterkeyn was a Belgium engineer that designed the Atomium between 1954 and 1958. The building was designed to last for the six months’ period of the expo, but because of its popularity, the city of Brussels never tore it down. Since then, Waterkeyn and the organisation owning the building are cashing in on the copyrights to the image of it. For a long time, it was even illegal to take pictures of the building.
That law has changed in 2016, one year before this album came out. So did the record company pay the rights to this picture to the Atomium?