One of my favorite things about being a student at the New School is I am constantly surrounded by people with a very good taste in music. One of my good friends recently introduced me to a folk artist known as The Tallest Man on Earth. Since I first heard his song “The Gardener” earlier this week, Swede Kristian Matsson aka The Tallest Man on Earth, is all I have been listening to. While his sound is very similar to Bob Dylan, the comparison in my opinion is irrelevant, as he has developed his own particular sound that is extremely captivating.
His 2008 album, Shallow Grave, earned fabulous reviews
from publications such as the independent music guide, pitchfork.com, establishing a name for himself as a talented musician and songwriter. Featuring a total of eleven songs, Shallow Grave features soft folky acoustic guitar sounds and profound and poetic lyrics. Combined with Matsson’s raspy voice, his songs, in two words, are beautifully haunting. My favorite song happens to be the one I was initially introduced to, The Gardener. Matsson’s imagery created by his lyrics is remarkable – I often found myself wishing someone would write a song for me that was just as beautiful. The Gardener, as well as all of the songs featured on Shallow Grave, needs multiple listens before Matsson’s obscure imagery can be broken down – but truthfully I did not mind having the album on repeat for the past week.
Matsson will be releasing his second album, The Wild Hunt, on April 16. And on April 20th, he will be performing at the Highline Ballroom, located in New York City. This is a show I would very much like to see.
To watch a performance of several songs, including The Gardener, please click here.
This one is a bit weaker. First of all it's not a response to anything having HAPPENED. (In your other, you were responding to the release of sitc trailer.) And then it doesn't feel about anything other than your personal likes. Remember, there is so much out there on the web, you always need to ask youself, "who cares?" beyond yourself, of course!
ReplyDeleteAlso, again, the links are not that interesting. Could you have take this to be about the resurgence of folk music and linked to some intersting youtube videos/articles/mp3s? And with links, watch what words you link from. You want the words to be the closest representation to what you're linking to as possible. So there's nothing wrong with saying "so in so writes about this in whatever" and link to that. or "here;s video of him playing" Does that make sense?