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When the pandemic drove Kristian Matsson from New York City back to his farm in Sweden he felt enveloped by silence, stating frankly in his current bio, "I lost my imagination." Fortunately, when the singer-songwriter/guitarist who goes under the nom de stage The Tallest Man on Earth began to tour again his creative dam burst: "When I'm in motion, I can focus on my instinct, have my daydreams again." After writing twenty songs in ten days, some of which became his seventh full length Henry St., Matsson, initially a throwback Dylan devotee, decided that for the first time in his career he needed a band around him to flesh out his creations. It's a welcome new flavor, although, other than drummer TJ Maiani, who occasionally makes his presence felt—mostly via brushes—players like Ryan Gustafson of Sylvan Esso (guitar, lap steel), Bon Iver's CJ Camerieri (horns) and Rob Moose (strings) are mostly just background as Matsson's voice, consistently able to reach for emotion and urgency, is the star here, along with the songs, many of them with appealing melodic turns, like the opener "Bless You." In "Major League" he plays a jaunty banjo and sings lines about Cleveland, a Randy Newman song and how "I'm just waiting on a word from America." His sometimes home in the New World reappears in the title track as this "little dude" ponders his physical and emotional travels, "In the scape of songs/ I know I'm wrong/ I just feel it right/ I swim the world/ In my wishing well/ I just don't know if I can take it anymore." After Dylan, the strong and often high voiced Mattson, whose phrasing is occasionally reminiscent of Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, is also a student of '60s troubadours, borrowing the attitude and bounce of early Cat Stevens in "In Your Garden Still." Determined to pound on eternal and unanswerable questions until some meaning seeps out, in "Italy" he admits, "I know that I stay with the life I dream and part of it shows" before coming to the only honest answer possible, "But I don't know of a way out in the river of time." Persistently inquiring in each song on Henry St., Matsson the searcher continues his quest. © Robert Baird/Qobuz
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Amelia Meath, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer - Hipgnosis Songs, MusicPublisher
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Tallest Man On Earth, MainArtist - Patricia Sullivan, MasteringEngineer - Kristian Matsson, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Sanborn, Producer
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
Album review
When the pandemic drove Kristian Matsson from New York City back to his farm in Sweden he felt enveloped by silence, stating frankly in his current bio, "I lost my imagination." Fortunately, when the singer-songwriter/guitarist who goes under the nom de stage The Tallest Man on Earth began to tour again his creative dam burst: "When I'm in motion, I can focus on my instinct, have my daydreams again." After writing twenty songs in ten days, some of which became his seventh full length Henry St., Matsson, initially a throwback Dylan devotee, decided that for the first time in his career he needed a band around him to flesh out his creations. It's a welcome new flavor, although, other than drummer TJ Maiani, who occasionally makes his presence felt—mostly via brushes—players like Ryan Gustafson of Sylvan Esso (guitar, lap steel), Bon Iver's CJ Camerieri (horns) and Rob Moose (strings) are mostly just background as Matsson's voice, consistently able to reach for emotion and urgency, is the star here, along with the songs, many of them with appealing melodic turns, like the opener "Bless You." In "Major League" he plays a jaunty banjo and sings lines about Cleveland, a Randy Newman song and how "I'm just waiting on a word from America." His sometimes home in the New World reappears in the title track as this "little dude" ponders his physical and emotional travels, "In the scape of songs/ I know I'm wrong/ I just feel it right/ I swim the world/ In my wishing well/ I just don't know if I can take it anymore." After Dylan, the strong and often high voiced Mattson, whose phrasing is occasionally reminiscent of Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, is also a student of '60s troubadours, borrowing the attitude and bounce of early Cat Stevens in "In Your Garden Still." Determined to pound on eternal and unanswerable questions until some meaning seeps out, in "Italy" he admits, "I know that I stay with the life I dream and part of it shows" before coming to the only honest answer possible, "But I don't know of a way out in the river of time." Persistently inquiring in each song on Henry St., Matsson the searcher continues his quest. © Robert Baird/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:05
- Main artists: The Tallest Man On Earth
- Composer: The Tallest Man On Earth
- Label: Anti - Epitaph
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti 2023 Gardener Songs, Inc., under exclusive license to Anti
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