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Dark Bird Is Home

by The Tallest Man On Earth

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grimhere Great album. It was so nice chatting with you at WOW! - Carl
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adrianszozda Everything I loved about The Wild Hunt, but with a full band and some beautiful clever arrangements and hooks. Great Album
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twowrongsthefan This album has been with me through some dark times - thanks sincerely
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Andrew Matsson’s voice has always reminded of me of grit on a darkened basement window, it gives you a sense of agedness of its own, and below it lies something deep and mysterious, but familiar--intimate. Still, this is undeniably a TMoE album but it embraces the palettes only briefly experimented with in previous albums. I love it. If I heard this album like I heard my first, I would probably do like I did then, pause what I was doing, and listen to the whole thing.
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Singers 03:07
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Slow Dance 03:37
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Sagres 05:14
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Timothy 04:20
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Beginners 03:15
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Seventeen 04:07
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about

'Dark Bird Is Home' doesn’t feel like it came from one time, one place, or one tape machine. The songs and sounds were captured in various countries and studios, and they carry a weather-worn quality, some dirt and some grit.

If you’re a fan of The Tallest Man On Earth, 'Dark Bird...' pays real tribute to the old records you fell for, and goes new places you’re going to love as well. If you’re new to The Man: holy shit! Many would be jealous of your position. Enjoy these songs, and know there are 40 or more other gems waiting on earlier albums and singles.

Early in 'Dark Bird...', toward the end of the opening track, we hear other voices and sounds backing Kristian Matsson’s own. One of them, later credited in the liner notes with Angel Vocals, shows up several times throughout the record, adding new color to the familiar palette. And so the story grows and expands. That first song has horns and a piano, keyboards, synthesizers, and other modern noisemakers… and by track two you’ve got The Tallest Man on Earth as full-throttle rock and roll.

While 'Dark Bird Is Home' is The Tallest Man at his most personal and direct, deeper and darker than ever at times, it’s also an album with strokes of whimsy and the scent of new beginnings — which feels fresh for The Tallest Man on Earth, and well timed. Reliably, the melodies and arrangements are sturdy and classic, like old cars & tightly wound clocks. The lyrics and their delivery are both comforting and alarming, like tall trees & wide hills.

The other musicians and layers on this recording put a wide lens on familiar themes. Fear and darkness, sleep or lack of it, dreams in the dark and in the light. Moving, leaving, going. Distance and short stops, long straight lines, temporal places. More hopefully, a grateful nod to a traveling partner, a healing mind. Maybe a little forgiveness needed. Definitely some things to forget.

And of course, that last song. The title track. If there is a little legend-building to be done here, let it be this scene a few of the album’s early-listeners can recount: Kristian gently warning them over their shoulder before track ten begins: “Watch out for this one.”

You should expect the loudest and proudest sounds yet from The Tallest Man on Earth on album number four, but also the softest and the lowest. For the next few years, the Dark Bird tour will come to your city or a town nearby, and for the first time The Man is bringing a band to the stage with him.

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released May 12, 2015

The Tallest Man on Earth:

Kristian Matsson - Vocals, Acoustic guitar, Piano, OP-1, Backing vocals, synthesizer, Drums, Piano, Clarinet, Alto Horn, banjo, Electric guitar, Harmonica, tape machine, Rhodes bass, omnichord, toms, pedal steel guitar

Featured Performers:

Mike Noyce - Backing vocals, Violin, Viola, electric guitar
Mike Lewis - Saxophone, Piano, Bass, Synthesizer
Niclas Nordin - Percussion, Drums
Mats Winkvist - Electric Bass
CJ Camerieri - Trumpet, french horn, Magic
Bird Coulter - Piano
Oskar Bond - Piano
Dan Huiting - Bass

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