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Blanket Warm [Smokey Vinyl]
Blanket Warm [Smokey Vinyl]
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Lullaby for the Working Class – Blanket Warm [Smokey Vinyl]
Description
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.
Highlights
- Smokey vinyl edition
- 13 tracks
Track Listing
Side A
01. Good Morning
02. Honey, Drop the Knife
03. Turpentine
04. Spreading the Evening Sky with Crows
05. Boar’s Nest
06. Eskimo Song Duel
Side B
01. Three Peas in a Pod
02. Rye
03. Queen of the Long-Legged Insects
04. The Drama of Your Life
05. February North 24th Street
06. The Wounded Spider
07. Good Night
Format Details
- Label: 15 Passenger Records
- Genre: Indie
- Format: Vinyl
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