“HEATWAVE TIDAL FEVER SALT AIR • HOT NIGHTS” was created with FontVibe AI — explore more Drip Font Melting text effect. Glossy orange-red letters liquefying from the base down, with molten drips, warped lower edges and a glowing puddle on a dark charcoal floor.

Create a square retro-pop album cover for the surf band Heatwave. Make it a finished, tactile cover illustration with a distinct 1960s surf-poster sensibility: bold screen-printed shapes, limited ink colors, lightly imperfect registration, and confident graphic geometry, while keeping the melting lettering as the dominant visual element. Set the background in deep charcoal with a faint amber heat undertone, never pure black. Near the top, set the small album title “TIDAL FEVER” in clean, widely spaced cream capitals. Below it, make “HEATWAVE” the enormous centered headline, occupying about 82% of the cover width. Form the letters as bold slab-bodied hot wax: keep their top edges sharply defined, swell and soften the lower portions, and render their convex surfaces in vivid orange fading into deep amber-red at the pooling bases. Use broad orange-yellow specular arcs and a warm translucent glow just beneath the wax skin, not white highlights. Show gravity clearly with three drip tiers: one or two thick streams with slight bulges at their origins and teardrop ends, two or three medium streams, and fine capillary trails; add rounded surface-tension necks and small glossy pools beneath the letters. In the lower half, illustrate a stylized curling ocean wave, a tall vintage surfboard planted in the sand, and a large striped setting sun. Use crisp, simplified screen-print shapes in turquoise, coral, and warm cream, with slightly misregistered ink edges. The board and wave form a compact central scene beneath the headline; do not let them compete with or obscure the lettering. Add the small bottom line “SALT AIR • HOT NIGHTS” in cream uppercase, centered and clearly legible. Keep generous margins, clear separation between all text, and a strong top-to-bottom reading order. Include no other lettering, logos, borders, or photographic elements.