{"product_id":"lullaby-for-the-working-class-presale-11-13-26-blanket-warm-smokey-vinyl-lp-new","title":"Lullaby for the Working Class - (PRESALE 11\/13\/26) Blanket Warm (SMOKEY VINYL LP) | NEW","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHIPS BY 11\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtist: Lullaby for the Working Class\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Blanket Warm (SMOKEY VINYL)\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie \u0026amp; Alternative \/ Indie \u0026amp; Lo-Fi \/ Chamber Pop\u003cbr\u003eLabel: 15 Passenger Records\u003cbr\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!\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: ALT\/INDIE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabel: 15 PASSENGER RECORDS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalog Number: LP-15P-25C\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Type: LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 11\/13\/2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Lullaby for the Working Class","offers":[{"title":"- ALT\/INDIE *NEW\/COLOR*","offer_id":66775445471347,"sku":"5QXV3S-AJWT-00","price":23.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0500\/7837\/files\/alt-indie-new-color_NwEJw.jpg?v=1791027720","url":"https:\/\/www.lovevinylrecords.com\/products\/lullaby-for-the-working-class-presale-11-13-26-blanket-warm-smokey-vinyl-lp-new","provider":"Love Vinyl Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}