The Tallest Man On Earth clearly is a moniker and it's Kristian Matsson's. This Swedish singer-songwriter issues music on his own for more than ten years now. His name and recent album 'There's No Leaving Now' caught my attention, again, by its describing keywords indie and folk. Now, indie nowadays is not very precise when indicating the sound of the music in question, other than implying it stands aparts from mainstream. Folk, here is targetting better, because Matsson's songs on There's No Leaving Now refer back to a lot of names from the past, such as Nick Drake and also Bob Dylan. For that reason, the music is not necessarily old fashioned , since Matsson, still a youngster, delivers his songs in a modern atmosphere. However, the album sounds perfectly lo-fi recorded and shows how purity can be effective. It is more relaxed than his previous albums and contains a variety in instrumentation that is interesting. The album opens beautifully with 'To Just Grow Away', with friendly chords played on electric piano and guitar and sucked me right in. But today's song is '1904', a nicely decorated and catchy up-tempo acoustic song, that does not lack on strength and might become very recognisable after a few listenings.
