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10.0
42695
10.0 |
musicOMH
With mystique to spare, it’s a record to cherish
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9.0
43410
9.0 |
Tone Deaf
A remarkable effort, an album that takes the best from his influences but contains an essence and honesty that is staggeringly unique
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8.7
42733
8.7 |
Beats Per Minute
One of the best albums of the year
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8.0
42748
8.0 |
PopMatters
Makes use of much the same map work laid out by Matsson on 2010’s fantastic breakout The Wild Hunt. But if that record had Matsson’s guitar and vocal chords practically steaming from passionate strain after every chord change, Leaving sounds more cautious, more collected
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8.0
42844
8.0 |
Clash
With a voice that creaks like well-loved furniture and lyrics telling tales of the lives and losses of others, this album represents a career highpoint
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8.0
43003
8.0 |
Spin
Big-named tiny Swede still loves Dylan, doesn't think twice about copping his early strum
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8.0
43559
8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It's tough to deny that Kristian Matsson is now way up in the highest echelons of the genre
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7.5
44899
7.5 |
Under The Radar
It's not particularly groundbreaking if you've heard any of Matsson's previous work under the name-but that's not such a bad thing when it's this reliably good
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7.5
42864
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
While it is certainly a gorgeous record, I wonder if There’s No Leaving Now will have the same soul-gripping longevity of its predecessors
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7.5
42714
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Despite his limitations, Matsson remains an engagingly direct singer-songwriter unafraid to get straight to the heart of the matter, a refreshing change of pace as his contemporaries pile on layers of abstract atmospherics
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7.1
42704
7.1 |
Pitchfork
A pretty and intimately rendered collection of folk songs
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7.0
42803
7.0 |
Uncut
Absorbing, eloquent country folk. Print edition only
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7.0
43081
7.0 |
All Music
He's a bit of an acquired taste, not unattractive, but still a touch one-note, so There's No Leaving Now succeeds best when he breaks out of that mode of one enjoyable enough ingredient constantly reused, or at least tempers it more thoroughly than at other times
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6.5
42696
6.5 |
Bowlegs
He just keeps growing, which, at the end of the day, is all you can ask from an artist
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6.5
43670
6.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
In rendering himself more easily consumable, has The Tallest Man On Earth also, perhaps, made himself a little less interesting?
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6.4
42866
6.4 |
Paste Magazine
Settles too readily into a single slumberous mood. It’s all pull and no push
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6.0
42994
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
His raspy voice still aches and arches over the songs and caries his wandering soul and eager heart, but near every other facet of There’s No Leaving Now is compressed, leaving a much smaller impression than his previous albums
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6.0
43261
6.0 |
State
Isn’t a game changer but it further establishes The Tallest Man on Earth as a clever and talented musician with a distinctive flair
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6.0
42710
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Elegant mediocrity
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6.0
42694
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This is an agreeable record, but it comes from a man who we know is capable of something sublime
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6.0
44622
6.0 |
Mojo
Moves him nearer the front of the pack as his sounds expands. Print edition only
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6.0
43637
6.0 |
Q
A record that perhaps only Dylan fans need apply for. Print edition only
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4.0
43281
4.0 |
DIY
On his earlier work, Matsson stuck to a few, radiant formulae. Here, he only stuck to one
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