Optical illusion in band’s album cover shows hidden message – and is still confusing fans after almost two decades

OPTICAL illusion album art is has been bending the minds of music lovers for decades.

At first glance, the cover for Soulwax's 2005 album NY Excuse looks like a monochrome grid.

If you take a step back and look at it a little further away, you might see both the name of the artist and the album in the top right corner.

Viewers have been appreciating in this headache-inducing illusion for 17 years, especially the difference between the physical and digital media, reported.

The only option to try and read the words hidden in the grid on a vinyl cover is to step away from it.

But to view it on a screen, you just have to zoom out.

You might even be able to see it immediately through the tiny thumbnail.

Questions have been raised for how this illusion was achieved.

“The white squares inside the text zones are smaller than the outside ones so the black lines are thicker,” user Kraenerlus suggested.

Another user agreed with this idea.