Swedish folkster and songwriting genius The Tallest Man On Earth (aka Kristian Matsson) will release his 3rd album "There's No Leaving Now’ in June on Dead Oceans through Inertia.
The Tallest Man on Earth cites the the following influences on his myspace page as being; Bob Dylan, Bob Hund, Skip James, Feist, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Roscoe Holcomb, Velvet Underground, Son House, Charley Patton, Henry Thomas, Dock Boggs, Nick Drake and Billie Holiday. With such influences and the asset of an great voice born to sing folk Matsson has earned comparisons to Bob Dylan by Pitchfork as "a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting." "Like [Bob] Dylan,Matsson is so natural a songwriter that these tracks feel predetermined, tumbling out of his mouth with an ease and grace that's increasingly uncommon" The emphasis here should be on "increasingly uncommon". Matsonns' seemingly unholy natural ability to write lyrics and deliver them as an entire experience in order to make the listener believe they are living in the song accompanied by sights, sounds and olfactory perception makes his work truely unique. BBC music articulated thus, "A heady and enthralling work, its impressionistic nature bolstered by levels of charm and confidence found all too rarely in these modern times."
