Duly noted.
I was one of those digital download holdouts for many a year for one reason: No liner notes. I used to love bringing my musical haul home and poring over the liner notes. (My most treasured tiny booklets were of the Vaughn Oliver 4AD vintage.) But then I got lazy, moved way too much, and wanted my music RIGHT NOW, so I abandoned CD shopping and sold everything except the very rarest physical specimens to Amoeba. But today I opened up the iTunes digital booklet for Richard Hawley’s “Truelove’s Gutter” and found myself whisked back to the halcyon days of overwrought typography and oversaturated photography. Behold the lyrics to “As the Dawn Breaks,” designed by Nick Phillips and photographed by Julian Holtom:
