My new albums-as-books print is of James’ 1993 album ‘Laid’. A core slice of tuneful, writerly goodness, given a delicate polish and the occasional synth wash by producer Brian Eno. An album for all occasions, really.
I’m very, very busy with new prints and other such flittery matters… of which, more soon.
This James print is available right now in my Standard Designs Etsy shop. Enjoy!
Personally I can’t wait to get my hands on ‘Statistical Analysis in Biology’. I hear it’s a hoot.
Back in 1986 the Smiths drew their literary battle lines with distinct passion, as Morrissey famously offers up in “Cemetery Gates” that “Keats and Yeats are on…
Vanyaland in Boston has a lovely write-up of my Smiths albums-as-books prints.
I love this packaging. It simply says:
This is a big slab of brown something-or-other, and at the same time you buy it there will be many, many people across Europe speaking all kinds of languages you couldn’t possibly ever learn, not all of them, who are also buying it too. And to quote Keats, ‘That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know’.
Or something like that. I can confirm however that it is indeed 63p worth of happiness.
