Song (Lullaby for the Working Class album)

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Song
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ReleasedSeptember 21, 1999
Genre Folk rock
Length54:57
Label Bar/None
Lullaby for the Working Class chronology
I Never Even Asked for Light
(1997)
Song
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Pitchfork 4.8/10 [2]

Song is the third and final studio album by Lullaby for the Working Class. It was released in 1999 on Bar/None Records. [3]

Contents

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." [4] Exclaim! thought that Lullaby for the Working Class "have fully descended into over-orchestrated meaninglessness." [5]

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
Additional personnel

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References

  1. Song at AllMusic
  2. "Lullaby for the Working Class: Song". Pitchfork.
  3. Roberts, Randall. "Lullaby for the Working Class and Frogpond". Riverfront Times.
  4. "Lullaby for the Working Class". Trouser Press. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  5. "Lullaby For the Working Class Song | Exclaim!". exclaim.ca.