things i like about it:
-they're really going all out with it, down to the handmade paper used for the edition
-it's affordable ($45 each) for a hand-bound/printed/made book
-it exposes the craft of bookmaking to an audience that probably hasn't thought much about bookmaking before
what i dislike about it is harder for me to articulate, but it comes down to the idea of starting a press just to make books with republished lyrics by twee bands with twee fans, so the fans can post pictures of them on their twee tumblr pages and bask in how cool and different they are because they like things with handmade paper and handset type. the reason i hate myself for thinking this way is that the above probably isn't true, but this (publishing/bookmaking) is something that i dedicate most of my free time to, so it depresses me to think about it being used as an image/lifestyle accessory by hipsters to show how hip they are, rather than how i see it (that is, it's my LIFE, not just something i think goes well with my upcycled candy bowl made out of a warped record and my upcycled clock made out of a bicycle chainring).
that's why i have to give credit to the publisher, who has done an amazing job with these books, and priced them at a price people can actually afford, rather than holding them hostage for $400 each, like so many artist book publishers tend to do.
