On June 12, just over a year since the Tallest Man on Earth's Kristian Matsson debuted the promising, electric piano-backed tune "There's No Leaving Now," that song will arrive in studio form as the title track for his new LP. In fact, we also caught a glimpse of album cut "Little Brother" last month - one of 10 in total arriving via Dead Oceans this summer. Today we have the official album art and song titles, which can be previewed above and below, respectively. And for us studio rats, now's a good time to [...]
In a memorable mid January as the Northern Lights played spectacularly over Sweden, Kristian Matsson was burrowed at home warmly writing the follow up to The Wild Hunt and Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird EP - his two releases for 2010. Over the weekend, The Tallest Man On Earth debuted a new track for a delighted South African audience, to signify his first ever performance in the country. Titled 'Little Brother', you can hear that signature finger-picking and ruminative vocal that we hold in high [...]
The Tallest Man on Earth's Kristian Matsson returned to the stage last night after a winter spent recording in Sweden, two new songs in tow. Check out audio from his South Africa performance of the excellent "Little Brother" here .
Em qualquer sessão, apresentação televisiva ou registro ao vivo do The Tallest Man On Earth , nos acostumamos a ver apenas Kristian Matsson e uma guitarra ou violão no palco. Parece que o sueco está em um momento de transição em sua carreira, trocando essas apresentações intimistas por shows com banda completa. A primeira prova dessa transição veio na forma da canção inédita There's no leaving now , e agora, em qualidade impecável de som e imagem, é possível conferir Kristian e todo um elenco musical apresentando um cover [...]
Kristian Matsson and Amanda Bergman (The Tallest Man on Earth and Idiot Wind) have written seven new folk-based compositions between them, as the score for new Swedish flick En Gang Om Aret ( Once A Year ). Once A Year is Gorki Glaser-Müllers debut feature. With a narrative device similar to David Nichols' One Day , the film explores the relationship between a man and a woman who've met in different hotel rooms once a year, for the past thirty years, now struggling with the unexpected path their [...]
Kristian Matsson Covers Thin Lizzy, Previews Soundtrack The Tallest Man On Earth has been branching out from his solo-acoustic roots of late, contributing songs with partner Amanda Bergman to a film , debuting new material with a backing band, and — tonight — leading a group through Thin Lizzy’s late-’70s rock anthem “Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)” on Swedish television. Watch Matsson perform the latter for På Spåret above (he also does Swedish folk tune “En Fattig Trubadur” [...]
Video: Idiot Wind ft. Tallest Man - “Heart Is Like a River” (Live) We’ve seen them perform a Tallest Man on Earth tune as a moving duet , but now it’s Kristian Matsson’s turn to harmonize with an Idiot Wind composition. Watch as Amanda Bergman leads her future film soundtrack partner through an electric piano and guitar-backed take on a gorgeous song we’re tentatively dubbing (due to the repeated lyric) “Heart Is Like a River,” live in Stockholm, Sweden last night.
With the warmer weather here – there will be plenty of quality time spent tipping a few on front porches back decks and roof tops. Nothing like a fitting soundtrack to compliment those moments. Hopefully – each Friday we can provide you with something new to throw in the ol’ iPod. This week we feature The Tallest Man On Earth . Sweden's Kristian Matsson aka The Tallest Man On Earth has often been compared to Bob Dylan with his charismatic raw vocals and indie folk sensibility. Personally - we think he's a [...]
Kristian Matsson (aka the Tallest Man on Earth ) may currently be dubbed with the “Swedish Bob Dylan” title for his similarly poignant but intimate vocals and soft yet intricate guitar plucking. However, it’s difficult not to be drawn in to his honest, wistful tales that seem almost criminal they aren’t kept private, thus strengthening his peculiar star power. Often playing to an audience with nothing but his guitar, empty stages seem to surrender to his hearty arrangements such as the latest single, “Weather of a Killing Kind.” Even when singing out feelings about imminent doom, Matsson’s graceful wordplay [...]
Tweet This guy knows how to pull at those heartstrings. Maybe it's a combination of certain things going on in my personal life right now, but The Tallest Man On Earth is the kinda music that accompanies it well first thing in the morning . I've said this before but what he does isn't anything groundbreaking, but what he does do he does it extremely well, and that's hopeful, mournful, poetic, joyous, somber, pining Indie-Folk balladry. His last album [...]
The Tallest Swede on Earth, Kristian Matsson dropped off "Weather Of a Killing Kind", a new track released as part of the Adult Swim Singles Program . We loved Matsson The Wild Hunt LP from last year we put it in our Top 50 Albums of 2010 . "Weather of a Killing Kind" continues that high bar of quality with incisive lyrics and a desolate, spare instrumental. Stream and download the track below. The Tallest Man On Earth - Weather Of A Killing Kind The [...]
The Tallest Man on Earth - Weather of a Killing Kind Kristian Matsson’s latest previously unreleased gem arrived: “Weather of a Killing Kind,” the Tallest Man’s contribution to Adult Swim’s singles series . While you’ll have to wait until Monday to download the free MP3 at the link above, an official stream is here just in time for the weekend (via CoS ). Hear it above. Previously: The Tallest Man Debuts New Song Live // “In the Pockets”
Weather of a Killing Kind , nova faixa de Kristian Matsson sob o codinome The Tallest Man on Earth , foi lançada através da coletânea de singles gratuitos do bloco de comédias adultas do Cartoon Network, Adult Swim. Uma escolha peculiar, afinal, Weather of a Killing Kind não é o que se espera de uma música com a assinatura do Adult Swim. Weather of a killing kind traz novamente o lado melancólico de Matsson à tona, e é uma belíssima canção folk aos moldes de Bob Dylan [...]
Hear The Tallest Man’s “In the Pockets” Next week, the Tallest Man on Earth’s eponymous debut EP will be reissued on vinyl, complete with a previously unreleased track from the ‘06 era: “In the Pockets.” You can preview the bonus cut today, though, as Kristian Matsson has recruited readers of Tallest Man fansite Impossible Trees (via CoS ) to craft a music video for the excellent folk tune recovered from his humble beginnings. Details on the video contest alongside a free MP3 (for 24 hours [...]
Kristian Matsson não está aproveitando o sucesso de seus lançamentos de 2010 para descansar. O seu projeto folk The Tallest Man on Earth já apresentou música inédita em um show neste ano e acaba de anunciar a reedição de seu EP de estreia, homônimo. Mas não é uma reedição qualquer: o EP vem agora com uma faixa inédita, gravada em 2006 porém nunca antes lançada. Se a recente There's no leaving now se apoiava no som do piano, In The Pockets apresenta a sonoridade tradicional do [...]
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Tweet New music from The Tallest Man On Earth = old music from The Tallest Man On Earth. Any music from The Tallest Man On Earth = AWESOME! I'm fine with not saying anything else and leaving the post here, but I'll give you a little back-story. Back in 2006 when Kristian Matsson was but a lad he released a self-titled EP, a swirling, soaring Indie-Folk strum-along, harnessing the early years of Bob Dylan but without the political slant. Another [...]
There is an almost instinctive rustic quality to the folk songs of The Tallest Man 0n Earth that I always found appealing about the Swedish songwriter Kristian Matsson, something that is perhaps more discernable when you are far away from home and living in the fringes of loneliness. On “Troubles Will Be Gone” from his most recent album The Wild Hunt (2010), Matsson eulogizes the proud highway and the pursuit of phantoms on the road with hopeful conviction. His dreamy lyrical flourish also evokes the cold and strangelookingness of an outstretched nowhere — tomorrow, and tomorrow, [...]
The Tallest Man Re-Releases Debut + Watch Duet w/ Idiot Wind Later this month, the Tallest Man on Earth’s self-titled debut EP will be re-released on vinyl by Dead Oceans. Arriving on June 21, the set has been expanded to 6 tracks with the addition of previously unreleased cut “In The Pockets.” Great news for Kristian Matsson fans indeed (you can pre-order a copy of the 2006 EP here ), but while we wait for his second newly unveiled cut , enjoy the magnetic chemistry between Matsson and Idiot Wind’s Amanda Bergman as they [...]
Video: The Tallest Man on Earth Plays Jools Holland - “Love Is All” In which The Tallest Man on Earth’s Kristian Matsson serenades the off-air Later with Jools Holland studio with an electric guitar-backed version of The Wild Hunt single “Love Is All.” You can watch the TV show’s broadcast clip, featuring Matsson’s take on “King of Spain” while an aloof Beady Eye/ex-Oasis singer looks on, here .
O Beady Eye e o sueco Kristian Matsson , que atende pelo nome de The Tallest Man On Earth , esteviveram no programa do Jools Holland nesse dia 5 de abril de 2011. A banda de Liam Gallagher apresentou Millionaire , do seu primeiro disco, Different Gear, Still Speeding ; e Matsson empunhou o violão e desfilou sua voz rouca em The King Of Spain , do seu segundo disco, The Wild Hunt , de 2010. Acima, você assiste a apresentação contida do Beady Eye [...]
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