Lullaby for the Working Class: Blanket Warm - Smokey Vinyl - VINYL LP

Lullaby for the Working Class: Blanket Warm - Smokey Vinyl - VINYL LP

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Title:

Blanket Warm - Smokey Vinyl

Artist:

Lullaby for the Working Class

Label:

15 Passenger Records

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

840526516186

Genre:

Rock

Release Date:

2026-11-27

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

COLORED VINYL-REISSUE

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 it's 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.

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