{"product_id":"lullaby-for-the-working-class-blanket-warm","title":"Lullaby for the Working Class - Blanket Warm","description":"\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!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlanket 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLullaby 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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","brand":"15 Passenger Records","offers":[{"title":"Smokey LP","offer_id":58504914403672,"sku":"TKM-44676","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/truckmusic.store\/products\/lullaby-for-the-working-class-blanket-warm","provider":"Truck","version":"1.0","type":"link"}