PaperSpecs review the Montagu Square Album Deck of Cards

Beatie Wolfe NFC Album Deck Video

Singer/songwriter Beatie Wolfe helps us kick off 2016 by completely redefining two things we kinda thought we already knew: music dissemination and paper. That’s because in addition to CD and digital download, her new album, “Montagu Square,” has just been released as a deck of NFC paper cards, each of which plays one of her songs when tapped by an NFC-enabled smartphone.

Promoted as “the world’s first album deck of cards,” these little beauties are actually 4-color-printed by MOO.com on duplexed Arjowiggins Conqueror CX22. We could go on about how gorgeously designed these cards are, of course, and we will, but let’s get to the main attraction, shall we? What makes these pieces sing?!