Lullaby for the Working Class - Blanket Warm - Smokey Black Vinyl LP | Pre-Order 13.11.26

Praised by Rolling Stone, NME and the New York Times on release - the1996 debut from the members who went on to form bright eyes & cursive. Back on vinyl for its 30th anniversary! Blanket Warm is a genuine buried-treasure reissue: a record contemporary critics compared to the Rolling Stones, Guided by Voices, and Tindersticks, and one a new generation of listeners has rediscovered as a missing link to Neutral Milk Hotel and Sufjan Stevens’ chamber-folk. Lullaby for the Working Class formed in Lincoln, Nebraska in the winter of 1994, when multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis and singer-guitarist Ted Stevens began writing together. Working from two home-recorded demos - and without having played a single live show - the band signed to New Jersey’s Bar/None Records in 1995. Blanket Warm was recorded and mixed by the Mogis brothers between December 1994 and April 1996 at their own Whoopass Recording Studio in Lincoln. Bar/None issued the album on CD in September 1996, while the vinyl LP went out through Lumberjack/Saddle Creek imprint in a pressing of just 1,000 copies - long out of print, and the edition this reissue restores to the format. The result splits the difference between rustic and ornate: acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, and upright bass sit alongside a chamber ensemble of violin, cello, clarinet, trumpet, and trombone. Critics at the time reached for an unusually wide range of comparisons - the Rolling Stones, Guided by Voices, Tindersticks, Van Morrison - united mainly by the sense that nothing else sounded quite like it. Ted Stevens’ plainspoken, image-driven lyrics and unhurried delivery anchor songs that unfold with more patience and more instrumental color than the alt-country and lo-fi indie rock the band got lumped in with on release.

Track Listing

Good Morning
Honey, Drop the Knife
Turpentine
Spreading the Evening Sky with Crows
Boar’s Nest
Eskimo Song Duel
Three Peas in a Pod
Rye
Queen of the Long-Legged Insects
The Drama of Your Life
February North 24th Street
The Wounded Spider
Good Night

Specifications

• Artist: Lullaby for the Working Class
• Album: Blanket Warm
• Format: LP
• Edition: Smokey Black Vinyl LP
• Label: 15 Passenger Records
• Catalogue Number: LP15P25C
• Barcode: 840526516186
• Genre: Indie & Alternative

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