I remember back in the days when I lived in South Africa, we struggled to get good international acts to come out and play intimate gigs. No longer, it seems, as I’ve just come across this stunning recording of The Tallest Man on Earth playing a live show in South Africa, in one of my […]
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In which Kristian Mattsson, aka The Tallest Man on Earth, steps out from behind the guitar and in front of a piano, and – a very rare occurence – adds a backing band. Oh, and debuts a new song, possibly titled “There’s No Leaving Now”. All of which comes courtesy of a surprisingly good quality […]
One of my favourite tracks off of the Tallest Man on Earth’s 2010 release, “The Wild Hunt” (one of my releases of the year, by the way), was the heartbreaking Love Is All. So there was no way I was not going to post this video of Kristian performing the tune on one of my […]
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12 Top Albums of 2010
This year, I was really hoping to just skip the pontificating and disclaimer-filled opening paragraph that always seems to accompany “Best Of” year-end lists, and dive right into it. Alas, it was not to be. Because, to be honest, I found 2010 strange; about 90% of my favourite music bloggers called it the best year […]
Like a house made from spider webs and the clouds rolling in I bet this mighty river’s both my savior and my sin Oh, my savior and my sin – The Tallest Man On Earth, “Love Is All” It’s been quite some time since I originally wrote about Kristian Matsson, aka The Tallest Man on […]
This is just a short note to let you all know that there’s a new Tallest Man On Earth song out – see my last post on this dude here – titled “A Field of Birds”… and it’s a killer tune. The song’s been released as a theme song for the site, Yellow Bird Project; […]
What that extremely long and convoluted title alludes to is the fact that, for me, May 2008 has proven to contain an absolute dearth of good new music. Aside from the new Death Cab album and Frightened Rabbit release, not much sparked interest from me this month, and that might have been noticed in the […]