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9.2
11098
9.2 |
Beats Per Minute
Matsson has surprised us all with a work that flips his shtick on its side and briefly eschews convention altogether
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9.0
11045
9.0 |
No Ripcord
He may act as if he’s the tallest man on earth, but he may very well literally be a talent of Goliath proportions
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9.0
13353
9.0 |
FasterLouder
However you play it, it is a truly excellent album
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8.5
11668
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Even if we are all buying into the incessant quest for what’s new and what’s next, everyone needs to take a moment to slow things down enough to listen to the exquisite beauty of The Wild Hunt
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8.5
11218
8.5 |
Pitchfork
He uses the barest of pop-folk settings to give mundane moments - another break-up, another tour, another change of season, another Dylan comparison - a grandeur so disproportional that it's difficult not to identify and sympathize with him
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8.0
11255
8.0 |
PopMatters
He may still owe quite a bit to some musical legends, but he does them, and himself, the most justice by not nodding to them on this record. The Wild Hunt is his record, first and foremost. And it is an excellent record
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8.0
11142
8.0 |
musicOMH
Matsson has made a stunningly genuine folk record that compares favourably to staples of the genre dating back to Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin'
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8.0
11201
8.0 |
Clash
The Tallest Man On Earth may very well be the saviour of modern folk
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8.0
11089
8.0 |
Uncut
Ageless melodies with vivid, fluently poetic images. Print edition only
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8.0
10998
8.0 |
The Independent
In some cases, his imagery seems to come from the same wellspring of demonic intimation that fed original country bluesmen like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson
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8.0
11000
8.0 |
The Guardian
It's just him and a guitar throughout, but he plays wonderfully
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7.0
11373
7.0 |
Rave Magazine
Steeped in the country end of the American folk tradition, it draws on Dylan’s mentor, Woody Guthrie, as much as it draws on Dylan himself
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7.0
11251
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Listening to it makes me want more fingerpickin’, more howling, more of what Matsson does best...sometimes experimentation is overrated, that sometimes playing it safe yields a pretty damn gratifying result
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6.0
11013
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
11020
6.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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6.0
11036
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
A lovely collection of heartfelt songs that will keep good company, serenading you on those cold rainy days when silence is too lonely and anything more is too much to bear
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6.0
10989
6.0 |
The Irish Times
It’s a pity that so many can’t get beyond Kristian Mattson’s one-in-a-billion voice, because this is a singer-songwriter who has much to offer
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6.0
11062
6.0 |
Bowlegs
A short, unadorned set of hurriedly strummed acoustic songs that stand or fall depending on the listener’s tolerance for his strangulated vocals
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6.0
11672
6.0 |
State
The Wild Hunt is unlikely to win The Tallest Man on Earth many new fans, but it will satisfy most of those who were singing along to Shallow Grave
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5.0
11133
5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This album lacks distinctly in original thoughts, or ideas, or anything that doesn't bring to mind a few predecessors
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