Which Pink Floyd album features a prism on the cover?

The Pink Floyd album featuring a prism on its cover is The Dark Side of the Moon. Released in 1973, the band's eighth studio album became one of the most recognizable records in rock history, thanks partly to its stark black sleeve and white beam splitting into a colored spectrum.

The cover was designed by the British art collective Hipgnosis, with the final illustration created by George Hardie. Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell developed the concept after Richard Wright asked for artwork that was simple, bold, and elegant. The prism suggests several ideas at once: Pink Floyd's concert lighting, the album's themes, and the transformation of a unified beam into separate colors.

The album was recorded at EMI Studios, now Abbey Road Studios, between 1972 and 1973, with Alan Parsons as engineer. Its songs explore time, money, conflict, death, and mental strain, while the recurring heartbeat and sound effects help connect the tracks. A common mix-up is confusing the prism with the artwork of later Pink Floyd reissues; the famous original prism cover belongs specifically to The Dark Side of the Moon.