Mutual Benefit – “Lost Dreamers”
Next month, Mutual Benefit is following up his much-loved 2013 breakthrough Love’s Crushing Diamond with a new album called Skip A Sinking Stone. We’ve seen the animated video for its lovely lead single “Not For Nothing,” and now he’s shared another new track.
Both thematically and sonically, “Lost Dreamers” is a calming oasis amidst the tumult of modern existence, a shining quilt woven from gentle guitar strums, sighing strings, and lilting flutes. “Let’s take the long way home/ Let’s throw away our phone/ We can see stars from here/ Why would we go back anywhere,” Jordan Lee sings, his voice wafting through as if carried in on a passing breeze. In conjunction with the release of the song, Mutual Benefit is also announcing the Lost Dreamers contest, in which fans can submit their dreams (in written or pictorial form) to this website for a chance to win a test pressing, a limited edition color LP, a signed poster, an original tour photo, and a dream journal. Selected submissions chosen by Lee will then be visually recreated by a group of artists for an animated Mutual Benefit dream journal. Listen to “Lost Dreamers” below via Spin.
Tour dates:
04/25 Amsterdam, NL @ Sugarfactory
05/26 Antwerp, BE @ Trix Bar
04/28 London, UK @ Bush Hall
04/29 Paris, FR @ Le Point Ephemere
05/27 Toronto, ON @ The Drake Hotel
05/28 Lansing, MI @ Mac’s Bar
05/30 Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room
05/31 Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
06/01 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
06/05 Seattle, WA @ Barboza
06/06 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
06/08 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
06/10 Los Angeles, CA @ The Resident
06/11 San Diego, CA @ Casbah
06/14 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
06/15 Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room
06/17 St. Louis, MO @ The Luminary Center for the Arts
06/18 Columbus, OH @ The Basement
06/20 Washington, DC @ DC9
06/21 Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
06/22 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
06/23 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
06/24 Boston, MA @ Great Scott
Skip A Sinking Stone is out 5/20 via Mom+Pop/Transgressive/Spunk.