Love's crushing diamonds

"Throughout this collection of seven gorgeous, baroque-folk songs, he's dealing in perhaps the most pervasive and difficult internal battle of all: how can you be a loving, patient, warmhearted and unfailingly hopeful person in an environment that makes it far easier to not give a shit? ... Songs invariably rise out of twenty or so seconds of everyone getting situated, tapping out piano riffs, trying to get the percussion in rhythm and determining who's going to sing. From there on out, there's often contain one central melody and a clearly elucidated mood that spools throughout".

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"Jordan Lee's Mutual Benefit and his terrific new album Love's Crushing Diamond, an album whose contemporary notions of masculinity and baroque pop recall Sufjan Stevens and the Postal Service of the early Aughts. On Love's Crushing Diamond, Lee offers seven immaculately composed tracks, all of which feature his refreshingly optimistic ruminations on love and life in today's world".

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