''Song'' is the third and final studio album by

Lullaby for the Working Class Lullaby for the Working Class was an indie folk rock band from Lincoln, Nebraska, active from the mid-to-late 1990s. Fronted by Omaha, Nebraska singer-songwriter Ted Stevens (of the bands Mayday and Cursive), the group also featured multi-instrume ...

. It was released in 1999 on

Bar/None Records Bar/None Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Early history Tom Prendergast started Bar/None in early 1986 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Having previously worked in pirate radio and booked and promoted bands in his na ...

Critical reception

Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...

'' 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." ''

Exclaim! ''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 ...

'' thought that Lullaby for the Working Class "have fully descended into over-orchestrated meaninglessness."

Track listing

# "Expand, Contract" # "Inherent Song" # "Asleep on the Subway" # "Seizures" # "Non Serviam" # "Sketchings on a Bar Room Napkin" # "Kitchen Song" # "Ghosts" # "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 Michael Riley Mogis (born May 16, 1974) is an American producer/engineer and multi-instrumentalist who, along with his brother A.J. Mogis, founded Presto! Recording Studios (previously known as Dead Space Recording and, earlier, Whoopass Record ...

– guitar, pedal steel, hammered dulcimer, banjo, vibraphone *Erin Wright, Tiffany Kowalski – violin *

Ted Stevens Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr. (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. He was the longest-serving Republican Senator in history at the time he left o ...

– 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

References

1999 albums Lullaby for the Working Class albums Bar/None Records albums {{1990s-folk-album-stub