{"product_id":"lullaby-for-the-working-class-blanket-warm-smokey-vinyl","title":"Pre Order - Blanket Warm - Smokey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEstimated Ship Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2026-11-13\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-Order\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"15 Passenger Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53013089976605,"sku":"840526516186","price":41.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0803\/9517\/4173\/files\/4541826-3722613.jpg?v=1790148150","url":"https:\/\/easygoingrecords.us\/products\/lullaby-for-the-working-class-blanket-warm-smokey-vinyl","provider":"Easy Going Records + Hifi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}