This story is simple. Tallest Man on Earth guy Kristian Matsson wasn’t famous before he got famous. Because, see, it was the fame that made him famous in the first place. No fame, no famousness. Get it? At any rate, wow he is famous now. Of course, ‘fame’ exists on a sliding scale… he’s not as famous as Coca-Cola or Mickey Mouse or anything. But it’s clear that he’s now, at the very least, become ‘famous enough’ that his various investors can confidently reissue the music he released before people knew that he was ‘famous enough to have his pre-fame music reissued’ and rest assured that people who didn’t buy it originally because they didn’t know who the hell he was will buy it here in 2011 because they now realize, due chiefly to his fame at present, that they were fools to not know who he was in the past, even though he wasn’t yet then famous.
The soon-to-be-now-famous pre-fame music in question is a self-titled EP from 2006. Dead Oceans is releasing the vinyl version on June 21, and there’s a new, post-fame song, “In the Pockets,” tacked on to the heretofore-not-famous five-song tracklist for the vinyl version as well. And just in case you’re worried that Matsson has become so famous that his pre-fame music will sell like hotcakes in light of all this recent retroactive fame stuff, you can pre-order it early at amazon.com. What a famous idea.
The Tallest Man on Earth EP tracklisting:
01. It Will Follow the Rain
02. Walk the Line
03. Steal Tomorrow
04. Over the Hills
05. Into the Stream
06. In the Pockets
• The Tallest Man on Earth: http://www.thetallestmanonearth.com
• Dead Oceans: http://www.deadoceans.com