Artists

The Tallest Man On Earth

A rather brilliant moniker befitting a rather brilliant artist, The Tallest Man On Earth is Sweden's Kristian Matsson. Real height 5 feet 9 inches. After releasing a self-titled EP in 2007, Matsson's debut caught the ears of the good folk at Pitchfork a year later and his booming voice seeped across the web over the next few months. Potentially this generation's Dylan.

Discography

Albums: 
Shallow Grave (Gravitation) 2008
EPs: 
The Tallest Man on Earth (Gravitation) 2007

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The Tallest Man On Earth

Articles

Caught Live: The Tallest Man on Earth

Tonight’s show is sold out, an impressive if not surprising feat for Barden’s Boudoir and Kristian Matsson, The Tallest Man on Earth. Dalston is no Scandinavian township, you’ll find no glassy lakes, no wild strawberries are growing here, but outside Turkish grocery stores an array of brightly...

Caught Live: The Tallest Man On Earth @ O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Avoiding the first person in review. It’s a good rule to stick to as much as possible unless you are gonna run off on a Hunter S Thompson tip. I’m not gonna do that (did you see that? I’M). Now that that barrier’s broken it’s also worth noting another rule –...

Review of The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt by The Tallest Man On Earth

The Wild Hunt is the second helping from the honey tongued troubadour with the most charminging of voices, Kristian Matsson aka The Tallest Man on Earth, Sweden's most eloquent reply to those who say that Europeans just shouldn’t make certain kinds of American music. Matsson is...