PHOTOS: Mutual Benefit at Rickshaw Stop 1/25

By Pedro Paredes //

Mutual Benefit with Dan Casey and Dim Peaks //
Rickshaw Stop — San Francisco
January 25, 2014 //

Last Saturday night, Hayes Valley’s Rickshaw Stop saw an unusual transformation, and thanks to the warmth of Mutual Benefit’s debut LP, Love’s Crushing Diamond, it metamorphosed from a brick and mortar venue into a mother’s undisturbed womb, as Jordan Lee’s gentle voice transported us back in time to a place where ‘we aren’t meant to be afraid‘.

The transformation didn’t last long — Mutual Benefit is a young band with only one LP equipped with seven awe-inspiring songs — but it was enough to make you listen, as it’s message is delivered in the form of a crushing diamond, sticking deep, hard to shake off: there’s always love, even when there’s no love to give.