Mutual benefit
Mutual Benefit is a music project around the songwriter Jordan Lee. The band consists of changing members. There is no permanent cast. Love's Crushing Diamond's first LP was highly praised. Stereogum magazine listed Mutual Benefit in the "Band to Watch" category and Pitchfork under "best new music". Musicians who have contributed to Mutual Benefit include Marc Merza, Jake Falby, Cory Siegler, Virginia de las Pozas, Julie Byrne, Cameron Potter, George Folickman, Dillon Zahner, Andrew Morehart, Katie Pierce, Bradley Will, and Samuel Yager.
history
Mutual Benefit was founded as a music project in 2009 while Jordan Lee was living in Austin, Texas. Eventually he moved to Boston to meet with musicians he wanted to play with. The members of the band around Lee fluctuate. The cast during the 2011 tour consisted of musicians who were just available. On the tour in late 2011, the recordings for the album Love's Crushing Diamond began , which were finally completed in Texas. The album was released on Bandcamp on October 7, 2013. It was the first Bandcamp album ever to be recommended as "Best New Music" in Pitchfork . A longer tour is planned for early 2014. In addition to Jordan Lee and his sister Whitney Lee, the bassist Marc Merza, the violinist Jake Falby, the guitarist Mike Clifford and the percussionist and guitarist Dillon Zahner are there. The tour goes through North America and Europe. The album Love's Crushing Diamond will be released as an LP in January 2014 on the Other Music Recording label.
Discography
Digital albums
- 2009: Figure in Black
- 2010: Drifting EP
- 2010: Spider Heaven
- 2011: Mutual Spirits
- 2011: I saw the sea
- 2011: The Cowboy's Prayer
- 2013: Love's Crushing Diamond
Web links
- Mutual Benefit on Facebook
- Mutual Benefit at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Chris DeVille: Bands to Watch: Mutual Benefit . Retrieved November 4, 2013.
- ^ Andrew Sacher: Mutual Benefit released on LP, playing shows (dates & streams) . Brooklyn Vegan. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ^ Ian Cohen: Mutual Benefit Love's Crushing Diamond . Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ^ Mutual Benefit . Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ↑ a b Bandcamp: Love's Crushing Diamond
- ^ Mutual Benefit Signs to Other Music . Fat Possum Records. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ^ Carrie Battan: Mutual Benefit Announces Tour . Pitchfork. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Love's Crushing Diamond at Other Music Recording Co. . Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ↑ Figure in Black . Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ↑ Drifting EP . Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ↑ Spider Heaven . Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ↑ Mutual Spirits . Archived from the original on January 7, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ^ I saw the sea . Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ^ The Cowboy's Prayer . Retrieved December 27, 2013.
