{"product_id":"blanket-warm-smokey-vinyl","title":"Blanket Warm [Smokey Vinyl]","description":"\u003ch2\u003eLullaby for the Working Class – Blanket Warm [Smokey Vinyl]\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraised 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHighlights\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmokey vinyl edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13 tracks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e01. Good Morning\u003cbr\u003e02. Honey, Drop the Knife\u003cbr\u003e03. Turpentine\u003cbr\u003e04. Spreading the Evening Sky with Crows\u003cbr\u003e05. Boar’s Nest\u003cbr\u003e06. Eskimo Song Duel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e01. Three Peas in a Pod\u003cbr\u003e02. Rye\u003cbr\u003e03. Queen of the Long-Legged Insects\u003cbr\u003e04. The Drama of Your Life\u003cbr\u003e05. February North 24th Street\u003cbr\u003e06. The Wounded Spider\u003cbr\u003e07. Good Night\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFormat Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabel: 15 Passenger Records\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Lullaby for the Working Class","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67825918312681,"sku":"0T389V-I2PC-IA","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/lullaby-for-the-working-class-blanket-warm-smokey-vinyl_SCBkI.jpg?v=1793483849","url":"https:\/\/www.vibinvinyl.com\/products\/blanket-warm-smokey-vinyl","provider":"Vibin' Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}