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First Listen: The Tallest Man On Earth, 'I Love You. It's A Fever Dream.'

Kristian Matsson has figured out that the crests and valleys of our interiorities are just as beguiling as the vast expanses around us.
The Tallest Man on Earth's <em>I Love You. It's A Fever Dream.</em> comes out April 19.

There's a prevailing image of — Swedish folk singer Kristian Matsson's musical moniker — of a wayward, sometimes homesick vagabond in the constant pursuit of adventure. Maybe it's the abstractions of nature that he's swooned about for so long, or the landscapes-as-album-art that sets his music in the passing daydreams of Americana nostalgia. He pines for the wild hunt, for the thrill of the trail — even in

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