Event

Mutual Benefit

The Luminary presents Mutual Benefit on Friday, June 17. Doors 8:00 pm, show 9:00 pm. Tickets $10 adv / $12 dos.

Mutual Benefit
Jordan Lee has spent the last few years moving from Ohio to Austin to Boston, and most recently Brooklyn, running the wonderful Kassette Klub label, touring with friends' groups, and leading an amorphous project called Mutual Benefit: a one-man-band or a sprawling collective, depending /on where he is and who is around that day.

After several cassette EPs and split releases, and playing scores of house shows, Lee completed his debut album Love's Crushing Diamond, a record of lush, watery, pop songs, pieced together over the past several years and inspired by the kinetic energy, goodbyes, and blurred landscapes of life on the road.

The songs are heartfelt and powerful with Lee's fragile and beautiful voice as the centerpiece, and the recordings are an instantly engaging blend of high and low fidelity, mixing lush studio productions, featuring keys, guitar, violin and banjo, with clattering homemade percussion and found sounds. While the album is certainly Lee's brainchild, the recordings are very much a collaborative effort featuring contributions by friends and others met along the way.

Love's Crushing Diamond was initially going to be a cassette-only self-release. Then some friends offered to start a label and press a limited edition 250 LP run. However, as the Bandcamp posting of the album received growing recognition, Other Music Recording Co. offered to take the reigns for the proper release this record deserves. Not a moment too soon, as Love's Crushing Diamond became the first-ever Bandcamp release to be named "Best New Music" by Pitchfork, and earned a "Band to Watch" feature on Stereogum.

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