Love's Crushing Diamond

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	84/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Exclaim!	9/10[4]
Consequence of Sound	[5]
Drowned in Sound	8/10[6]
Pitchfork Media	8.4/10[7]

Love's Crushing Diamond received widespread acclaim from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 84, based on 18 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[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. And in Lee's point of view, you need to discover a little space within those places that you can call your own and then invite some people to share it with. 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."[7]

All tracks are written by Jordan Lee.

Main personnel

• Jordan Lee – sounds
• Jake Falby – violin
• George Folickman – bass
• Marc Merza – electric guitar
• Cameron Potter – drums
• Dillon Zahner – hand drums, percussion
• Virginia de la Pozas – vocals
• Cory Siegler – artwork, design, vocals
• Julie Byrne – vocals

Additional personnel

• Jake Yuhas – mastering
• Ali Carter – sound hunting
• Chico Jones – cacophony
• Austin Kalman – cacophony
• Stefan Grabowski – inspirational electronics