Love's Crushing Diamond is the debut studio album by American band Mutual Benefit.

[1] Ian Cohen of Pitchfork Media praised the album, stating, "Love’s Crushing Diamond is not folk in the escapist sense either, though it was recorded during a “year of notable absences” in San Diego, Austin and Boston.

Many of these songs take place in mundane, unglamorous locales—city trains, mining towns, cornfields, motel rooms.

Yeah, it does skew kinda hippie, as Lee’s lyrics detail picking roses by the lake and how a river can’t help but keep on keepin’ on.

That’s perfectly fine within the scheme of Love’s Crushing Diamond, which always sounds populated in a way that stresses its central themes of getting your own shit together so you’re better prepared to care for someone else.