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watch Mutual Benefit in a BV Studio Session; Leapling opening their NYC shows (video & updated dates)

video by Jessica Amaya, Albert Amaya, and Chris La Putt photos by Jessica Amaya

Jordan Lee’s art pop collective Mutual Benefit celebrated the vinyl re-release of their 2013 debut LP, Love’s Crushing Diamond, via Other Music this week (1/7), and part of that celebration included performing one of its tracks, “Advanced Falconry,” plus two songs from their 2010 Spider Heaven EP, for the seventh installemnt of our BV Studio Sessions recorded at Butler Recording in Bushwick. Big thanks to Jessica Amaya, Albert Amaya and Chris La Putt for making this look (and sound) great. You can check out the video at the bottom of this post.

Mutual Benefit also have a previously mentioned tour coming up that includes NYC shows happening on February 7 at Mercury Lounge and February 8 at Rough Trade. Since we last spoke, Leapling have been added to both of those shows, and tickets for both are still available.

All tour dates are listed, along with a few more pics from the BV Studio Sessions recording, the video, tracklist, and links to the six previous installments of the series, below…

Mutual Benefit BV Studio Session

Track Listing:
Advanced Falconry
Desert Island Feeling
Moonville Tunnel

Previous BV Studio Sessions:
* Ski Lodge
* Field Mouse
* Ex Cops
* Noun
* Savoir Adore
* Eleanor Friedberger

Mutual Benefit — 2014 Tour Dates
Jan 13 – Great Scott – Allston, MA
Jan 14 – Il Motore – Montreal, QC
Jan 15 – Drake Hotel Underground – Toronto, ON
Jan 16 – The Bird House – Grand Rapids, MI
Jan 17 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
Jan 18 – Turf Club – St. Paul, MN
Jan 21 – The Cobalt – Vancouver, BC
Jan 22 – Barboza – Seattle, WA
Jan 23 – Bunk Bar – Portland, OR
Jan 25 – Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA
Jan 26 – Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
Jan 28 – Eagle Rock Center for the Arts – Los Angeles, CA
Jan 29 – Rhythm Room – Phoenix, AZ
Jan 31 – Mohawk – Austin, TX
Feb 01 – Fitzgerald’s – Houston, TX
Feb 03 – The Earl East – Atlanta, GA
Feb 04 – Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC
Feb 05 – Black Cat – Washington, DC
Feb 06 – Boot & Saddle – Philadelphia, PA
Feb 07 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
Feb 08 – Rough Trade NYC – Brooklyn, NY
Feb 25 – Berghain Kantine – Berlin, Germany
Feb 26 – VEGA – Copenhagen, Denmark
Feb 27 – Molotow – Hamburg, Germany
Mar 01 – Tivoli Spiegelbar – Utrecht, Netherlands
Mar 02 – Botanique – Brussels, Belgium
Mar 03 – Point Ephémère – Paris, France
Mar 04 – St. John on Bethnal Green – London, UK