Song (Lullaby for the Working Class album) explained

Song
Type:	studio
Artist:	Lullaby for the Working Class
Border:	yes
Released:	September 21, 1999
Genre:	Folk rock
Label:	Bar/None
Prev Title:	I Never Even Asked for Light
Prev Year:	1997

Song is the third and final studio album by Lullaby for the Working Class. It was released in 1999 on Bar/None Records.^[1]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "Both playful indie-poppers and studious chamber ensemble, Lullaby maps a course through ten songs, establishing and contrasting melodies, building acoustic walls of sound more akin to My Bloody Valentine than Mazzy Star."^[2] Exclaim! thought that Lullaby for the Working Class "have fully descended into over-orchestrated meaninglessness."^[3]

Track listing

1. "Expand, Contract"
2. "Inherent Song"
3. "Asleep on the Subway"
4. "Seizures"
5. "Non Serviam"
6. "Sketchings on a Bar Room Napkin"
7. "Kitchen Song"
8. "Ghosts"
9. "Still Life"

Personnel

Lullaby for the Working Class

• Matt Silcock – accordion
• Katie Swoboda, Liz Schueller – cello
• Eric Medley – clarinet
• A.J. Mogis – bass, piano
• Shane Aspegren – drums, percussion
• Mike Mogis – guitar, pedal steel, hammered dulcimer, banjo, vibraphone
• Erin Wright, Tiffany Kowalski – violin
• Ted Stevens – vocals, guitar
• Amoree Lovell – backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Mike Mogis and A.J. Mogis - production, recording, mixing
• Doug Van Sloun – mastering
• A.J. Mogis, Jeff Yarbrough, Pat Oakes, Shane Aspegren, Todd Baechle – photography

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lullaby for the Working Class and Frogpond. Randall. Roberts. Riverfront Times.
2. Web site: Lullaby for the Working Class . Trouser Press . 22 September 2021.
3. Web site: Lullaby For the Working Class Song | Exclaim!. exclaim.ca.