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Artist | The Tallest Man On Earth
Title | Shallow Grave
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 30:26
Label | Gravitation Store | 2008
Catalog | GRA028 Rip | 2018
Bitrate | 193 kbps Size | 44.41 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. I Won't Be Found 2:47
02. Pistol Dreams 3:34
03. Honey Won't You Let Me In 2:56
04. Shallow Grave 2:37
05. Where Do My Bluebird Fly 3:17
06. The Gardener 3:57
07. The Blizzard's Never Seen The Desert Sands 2:01
08. The Sparrow And The Medicine 3:06
09. Into The Stream 2:47
10. This Wind 3:24
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Playing spare but tuneful indie folk enlivened by his sometimes craggy,
always passionate vocals and poetic lyrics, The Tallest Man On Earth is the
stage name of Swedish singer and songwriter Kristian Matsson. Born in
Dalarna, Sweden in 1983, Matsson first broke into music as a member of the
group Montezumas, but in 2006, influenced by rootsy Swedish artists such as
Thomas Denver Jonsson and Homesick Hank, he struck out on his own as The
Tallest Man On Earth, releasing a self-titled five-song EP of elemental
acoustic songs with just his guitar for accompaniment on the Swedish label
Gravitation.
The debut by The Tallest Man on Earth is one of those albums that is truly
difficult to convince yourself was actually made when it was made, and
isn't a dusty artifact of a bygone era. The obvious point of reference is
early Dylan at his most earnestly folky - a no-brainer, especially given
Mattson's richly gritty, slightly pinched voice and densely imagistic
lyrics - but "Shallow Grave" also hearkens back further to the rural
sources of Dylan's inspiration, evoking the spirits of pre-war hillbilly
folkers and Mississippi country bluesmen, and often more vividly than Dylan
himself.
The unvarnished but essentially clean recording quality aside, there's
little to suggest that these tunes weren't recorded in the American South
in the early part of the last century, on the porch of some particularly
contemplative backwoods poet. Crucially though, it never feels as though
Mattson is playing a character, even if in some sense he clearly is: the
hard-won wisdom, sly humor, and deep-seated romance that infuse The Tallest
Man's songs drip from Mattson's craggy larynx just as artlessly and
effortlessly as his fiery, deftly picked guitar and banjo parts flow from
his fingers.
Interestingly, the duplicitous nature of persona - and the startling
lengths to which we'll go to maintain it - forms the central thread of the
album's most hauntingly resonant song, the tender yet unsettling "The
Gardener", whose narrator confesses a string of murders (allegorical or
actual) he's committed to preserve his image as 'the tallest man' in the
eyes of his loved one. Elsewhere, it can be a tall order to unravel the
album's fractured narratives or make sense of its pastoral-phantasmagorical
imagery (from 'Pistol Dreams': 'I will boil the curtains to extract the
drugs of springtime/But that unicorn, he stirs up as a mule').
But it's hard to mistake the world-weary sentiment at the core of "I Won't
Be Found" or the longing underlying the undeniably Dylan-esque "Honey Won't
You Let Me In". A key point of disambiguation: while it may be a similarly
scratchy acquired taste for some, and it's not exactly easy on the ears,
Mattson's voice is a much finer vessel for melody than Dylan's ever was,
and he imbues these songs with some excellent ones, immediately hummable
tunes that only deepen their appeal with repeated listens. An immensely
impressive and likable debut.
Proper reason: previous rip had failure in encoding.
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