Name: Skip a Sinking Stone
Brand: Mutual Benefit

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

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Download code: No

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-05-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5414939938757

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Mutual Benefit

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Transgressive

'Skip a Sinking Stone', the new album by Mutual Benefit (aka Jordan Lee) is a two-part meditation on impermanence that also acts as a portrait of growing up. Mutual Benefit's work has been praised as being vulnerable and warmhearted. This new album, his debut for Mom and Pop, has a similar sensibility, patiently built from carefully chosen lines illustrated by lush astral folk and intricately composed arrangements that manage to appear effortless. 'Skip a Sinking Stone' takes place after the success of Mutual Benefit's debut studio full-length, 'Love's Crushing Diamond', with Lee settled into a life that passes as steady. The first half of the record, awash in warm string arrangements and hope, is written about the year that followed: Mutual Benefit's rotating cast of friends and collaborators is touring non-stop, playing professional stages and festivals, and Lee is in love. The second half of the album finds Lee in New York, in a rare position of having the time and resources to work on the new record full-time. Lee lives and records at the Silent Barn, breaking from his usual nomadic lifestyle to explore staying in one place, reflected musically by a comparative stillness and introspection. However, New York life presents another kind of unreality: one colored by growing depression, a downturn in the relationship, and a city in turmoil, the atmosphere heavy with grief and anger in the wake of the Eric Garner verdict.LP - Black Vinyl with Download.LP+ - Limited Translucent Splatter LP with Download.

Skip a Sinking Stone

Music GB