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Their heartfelt performances have captivated audiences at festivals and venues worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"love-s-crushing-diamond","title":"Love's Crushing Diamond","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's no exaggeration to say that 'Love's Crushing Diamond' by Jordan Lee, who records as Mutual Benefit, may be the most beautiful record you'll hear all year. Lee's lyrics are intimate, poetic, and heart-warming; often filled with Buddhist-like musings on life and relationships. Think a mix of the beauty of Bon Iver, Youth Lagoon's 'The Year of Hibernation' balanced with the intimate, gentle grandeur of Sufjan Steven's Seven Swans. 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Having released his debut album 'Love's Crushing Diamond' via Bandcamp last year, a self-release on cassette that, on the strength of a Bandcamp posting, had blogs blowing up with praise for the record. It became clear that Love's Crushing Diamond needed a wider release. Other Music Recording Co. was thrilled to step in, not a moment too soon as the album became the first-ever Bandcamp release to be named Pitchfork's Best New Music, while still almost totally unavailable to a wider audience. Since its release proper in January, Mutual Benefit has been touring the world none stop. That brings us to 'The Cowboy's Prayer', the EP that marginally preceded 'Love's Crushing Diamond'. Unreleased outside of digital only via-Bandcamp and now released for the first time in Europe, as well as the first time on vinyl and CD. 'The Cowboy's Prayer' was based loosely on a road trip Jordan Lee took with a friend to Ohio through upstate New York that happened to correspond with the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. They ended up getting stuck in a small town for a couple days, the roads blocked with debris, and all around them were families grappling with the loss of all their worldly possessions. They had to fight with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) to get a hotel room because FEMA had rented them all out for displaced people. \"One of the few things open in the whole town that first day was a generator-powered Waffle House.\" says Jordan. \"I had a bit of a hard time processing all the surreal imagery and upon returning to Boston was weirdly struck by a sappy Roy Roger's clip where he recites \"The Cowboy's Prayer\". I adapted it to be somewhat of a personal mantra and it really informed the making of this record along with finally working up the courage to live nomadically for a while.\" Make me a partner with the wind  Let me see things as they stand  Guide me on the trail ahead  That stretches towards the great divide 'The Cowboy's Prayer' was the real introduction of the lush orchestral folk sound that many first heard on Mutual Benefit's breakthrough 'Love's Crushing Diamond' LP. 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The band, alongside Lee and Birnbaum, was made up of Wilder Maker members Sean Mullins (Andy Shauf) and Nick Jost (Baroness) and features help from Jonnie Baker of Florist and Eva Goodman of Nighttime among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  “I approached Growing at the Edges as an act of world-building. It was a place we visited often over the past 5 years collaging and sonically redecorating until it reflected the joy and the pain of being human in a universe that will always be changing. I wanted to make music that could simultaneously mourn versions of the past but still find hope in the seedlings which could, perhaps, bloom into better futures” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The album cover is a purposefully \"unfinished\" weaving by fiber artist Natalie Phillips. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  “I had this theme for Growing at the Edges where I was thinking about the first little life forms that pop up after something natural like winter or less natural like a disaster and kind of channeling their spirit for the art and music. That got me imagining one of Natalie's beautiful weavings but in-process with stray yarn and loom still visible. Incomplete yet still beautiful. I couldn't be happier with how it turned out.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Mutual Benefit’s live shows are known for their rotating cast of wide-ranging musicians leading to inspired interpretations of the extensive catalogue on notable stages like MoMA’s sculpture garden or UK’s Green Man Festival as well as the occasional surprise park or basement show at home in Brooklyn. 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