Thunder Follows the Light
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 21, 2018 (2018-09-21)
Length39:02
LabelTransgressive Records
Mutual Benefit chronology
Skip a Sinking Stone
(2016)
Thunder Follows the Light
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic76/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Clash7/10[3]
Paste8.1/10[4]
Pitchfork6.4/10[5]

Thunder Follows the Light is the third studio album by American indie rock band Mutual Benefit. It was released on September 21, 2018 under Transgressive Records.[6]

Critical reception

Thunder Follows the Light was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 76, based on 7 reviews. Marcy Donelson for AllMusic praised the lyrics and imagery, and said of the album "its woven timbres and rhythms are constructed in a way that would be dazzling if not so subdued".[2] In a review for Clash, Nick Roseblade called the album "[Lee's] strongest and most personal work to date", and said "if you start to dig a bit below its ethereal surface you find something that is incredibly rewarding on repeat listens".[3] Madison Desler for Paste praised the album's political themes and called it, "ambient, folky and gorgeously arranged."[4] A review by Arielle Gordon for Pitchfork took a more critical view, finding the lyricism to "lack potency": "This doe-eyed optimism is easily digestible, and that is perhaps the biggest issue: the realities Lee purports to write about are not easy." Gordon also acknowledged Lee's skill as a composer, but found the instrumentation often too "cloying" to adequately deal with the weighty subject matter.[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mike Clifford, Jake Falby, Jordan Lee, and Dillon Zahner

No.TitleLength
1."Written in Lightning"5:17
2."New History"3:12
3."Storm Cellar Heart"2:51
4."Shedding Skin"4:49
5."Come to Pass"2:42
6."Waves, Breaking"5:02
7."No Dominion"2:49
8."Mountain's Shadow"3:17
9."Nightingale"4:18
10."Thunder Follows"4:45

Personnel

References

  1. "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Donelson, Marcy. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Roseblade, Nick (September 19, 2018). "Clash Magazine Review". Clash. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  4. 1 2 Desler, Madison (September 24, 2018). "Paste Magazine Review". Paste. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  5. 1 2 Gordon, Arielle (27 September 2018). "Mutual Benefit Thunder Follows the Light". Pitchfork. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  6. Murray, Robin (May 22, 2018). "Mutual Benefit Announces 'Thunder Follows The Light'". Clash. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
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