Mutual Benefit Reveals Two New Songs from Forthcoming Album Thunder Follows The Light

Mutual Benefit, the project of Jordan Lee, is releasing a new album titled Thunder Follows The Light on September 21 via Transgressive. Today, Lee premiered two new songs off the album, “Come To Pass” and “Shedding Skin.” Lee states this about the latter song: “These songs came about at the same time on a busted 5 string guitar when I shut off my phone and declared my bedroom a makeshift, artist residency for a week. I had just returned from a tour that did a lot of meandering around the Appalachian Mountain region right as the ‘Make America Great Again’ signs started popping up more and more. ‘Come to Pass’ is a refutation of the idea that there was ever a golden age to return back to. Both personally and politically I’m afraid of this sort of constructed nostalgia that keeps us looking backwards instead of a having a powerful enough imagination to see the hard truths of the present but work towards a better future.” Thunder Follows The Light follows 2016’s Skip a Sinking Stone. Catch Mutual Benefit on Tuesday, November 20 at the Vera Project. Below, listen to “Come To Pass” and “Shedding Skin” and watch Mutual Benefit’s 2014 KEXP in-studio performance.