These releases are not merely containers for music. They are thoughtfully conceived artistic objects that extend, deepen, and enrich the listening experience. They are works meant to be lived with, revisited, displayed, and cherished. IGLOO MAGAZINE

The clothbound cover projects substance, the graphic design is clean, and the opportunity to fill a book permits the music’s makers to explain their processes at much greater length than the average Blue Note LP. THE WIRE

Gorgeously presented items and hugely generous in a way that is atypical in experimental music. Greyfade deserves many the plaudit for these works that point to a culture and a community of breathing, bleeding humans that produces a record. FREQ

An item of beauty, and a creative response to the collector’s urge that animates so many lovers of recorded sound. CHAMBER MUSIC MAGAZINE

An amazing book… really just above and beyond. There’s a meticulousness and care and concern that goes on here that is pretty remarkable and inspiring. JAMIE LIDELL

A powerful argument against the immediacy of our current culture. MEANS MAGAZINE

The Year’s Best Packaging, 2024. A CLOSER LISTEN

Since its founding in 2019, Greyfade has taken as its basic premise the idea of the musical album as a complete conceptual universe unto itself—integrating sound, compositional architecture, visual design, and text into a single object worthy of sustained engagement. To bring these threads together in a single physical form, the label’s next phase of development will explore a “new” medium: the book.

This cycle of music releases will be presented in an innovative new format: a 6.5 x 8” hardcover book with an included high-resolution music download. Equal parts album release, critical text, making-of narrative, study score, and collectible art object, the FOLIO format brings together what we believe to be the best of the physical and digital worlds.

These intricately designed and carefully manufactured linen wrap hardcover editions function as an extension of the musical work, deepening the listening experience through a range of textual, visual, and notational forms—essays, artist writing, images, data, scores—developed in parallel with the music. The included high-resolution music download is sourced directly from the studio masters, providing listeners with a digital listening experience of the highest quality and ownership of the music for years to come.

The FOLIO format represents a renewal of Greyfade’s commitment to the continued relevance of both thoughtfully designed physical objects and high-resolution digital music, bringing greater context and depth to the label’s most ambitious musical projects.


art direction & design joseph branciforte photography taylor deupree editors joseph branciforte kenneth kirschner ivy linton stabell