| Release Date: | 081823 |
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August 18 street date. The Tallest Man On Earth - the project of Swedish musician Kristian Matsson - presents "Too Late For Edelweiss", an album of new covers.
With "Too Late for Edelweiss", Matsson weaves together a sparse collection of home recordings made in Sweden and North Carolina, captured fresh off a 39-date run with the adrenaline of tour rattling through his veins. The songs on "Too Late For Edelweiss" have been with Matsson since he started playing music as The Tallest Man on Earth in 2006. In those early years, Matsson used to perform "Lost Highway" by Hank Williams before he had enough songs to flesh out a full set.
In July 2022, Matsson released a cover of Swedish superstar Håkan Hellström's "För sent för Edelweiss," a precious song that has been The Tallest Man's walk-on music before every performance for over a decade and what inspired the title of this covers album. Since then, in the lead-up to this announcement, he has quietly released other selections, including Lucinda Williams' "Metal Firecracker", Yo La Tengo's "Tears Are In Your Eyes", and now "Lost Highway".
As much as "Too Late for Edelweiss" feels like a scrapbook, an intimate memento with the ghosts of The Tallest Man's earlier, sparser sound hovering at the edges, it's also just the artifact of a moment - a flash of joy, of feeling recharged, of feeling good.
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