{"product_id":"lullaby-for-the-working-class-blanket-warm-smokey-vinyl-vinyl-lp","title":"Lullaby for the Working Class: Blanket Warm - Smokey Vinyl - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBlanket Warm - Smokey Vinyl\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eLullaby for the Working Class\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003e15 Passenger Records\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e840526516186\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eRock\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2026-11-13\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eAdditional Details: \u003c\/b\u003eCOLORED VINYL, REISSUE\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Praised by Rolling Stone, NME and the New York Times on release - the1996 debut from the members who went on to form bright eyes \u0026amp; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Good Morning \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Honey, Drop the Knife \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Turpentine \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Spreading the Evening Sky with Crows \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Boar's Nest \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Eskimo Song Duel \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Three Peas in a Pod \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Rye \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Queen of the Long-Legged Insects \u003cbr\u003e1.10 The Drama of Your Life \u003cbr\u003e1.11 February North 24th Street \u003cbr\u003e1.12 The Wounded Spider \u003cbr\u003e1.13 Good Night\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lullaby for the Working Class","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49005059899463,"sku":"46588470","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/4541826-3726785.jpg?v=1790679370","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/lullaby-for-the-working-class-blanket-warm-smokey-vinyl-vinyl-lp","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}