The Tallest Man on Earth and Idiot Wind Cover “Cycles”

While we wait for There’s No Leaving Now to arrive next month, here’s a little gem spotted over on the Tallest Man on Earth fansite ImpossibleTrees tonight: Kristian Matsson and Amanda Hollingby Mattsson — the talented married couple behind this year’s Once A Year soundtrack — duetting on a loose cover of personal-favorite Sinatra cut “Cycles.” This clip from a gig last night in Stockholm isn’t the best with regard to video, but their voices meld and carry the tune so beautifully that audio of the charming moment was captured with ease. Even minor lyric flubs make the take all the more endearing:

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The Tallest Man on Earth: There’s No Leaving Now

On June 12, just over a year since the Tallest Man on Earth’s Kristian Matsson debuted the promising, electric piano-backed tune “There’s No Leaving Now,” that song will arrive in studio form as the title track for his new LP. In fact, we also caught a glimpse of album cut “Little Brother” last month — one of 10 in total arriving via Dead Oceans this summer.

Today we have the official album art and song titles, which can be previewed above and below, respectively. And for us studio rats, now’s a good time to share a video that surfaced of Matsson giving a tour of his home studio during the winter sessions. It’s all in Swedish, but it isn’t hard to spot the microphones and various other pieces of gear assembled in his humble space:

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The Tallest Man Debuts “Little Brother”

After a few months spent at home amid Sweden’s Northern Lights-featuring winter, working on the follow-up to 2010’s The Wild Hunt LP and Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird EP, another Tallest Man on Earth record looks to be imminent. And as a first — or possibly second — taste of what’s to come, Kristian Matsson brought new material out to South Africa last night for his live debut in the country. Birds Need Feet spotted a clip with decent audio of one promising tune: “Little Brother,” a fresh yet familiar-feeling fingerpicked gem of the solo-electric variety, à la “The Dreamer.” Hear the early live preview above.