Wish they played Tallest Man in the coffee shops here. All we get is, like, Lumineers and shit. This shit is too lo-fi and raspy to satiate that banality.


Mm Passenger would like a word. = (

There's a lot of pop-adjacent folk and folk rock out there but like others have mentioned, this is not that, and I am significantly doubtful of its influence too but boy there is some really rough stuff in the folk-pop genre.

how can wild hunt be his worst when the smelly atrocity that is fever dream exists

Pikazilla would know. They have a smellometer.

Album Rating: 5.0

Dark Bird is probably my least favorite, though it has grown on me over the years. Don’t know that this guy could ever make a bad album in my eyes



Also yeah idk I like coffee shop-core outside of trope aping shits like The Lumineers.

Death Cab, Decemberists, Trampled by Turtles? Ohheelllyeahhh

Album Rating: 5.0

this and The Wild Hunt are the two best folk albums I have ever heard. I cannot imagine them being played in a coffee shop. they are too raw. to me they embody what folk music has always been about. and his guitar playing is unmatched by anyone in the genre. nobody in folk has ever played at his level. closest is Nick Drake.

Damn. That's a big claim...

Album Rating: 4.5

This is best yeah.

Album Rating: 5.0

Fuck yeah steakbro. I love quality pickin, and there’s very few who can do it like this fella. Tough for me to say this and TWH are the best folk records, but they are my favorites and have earned their 5s from me a million times over

Album Rating: 3.5

would it rly be that crazy to hear this in a coffeeshop lol i dont think so

Album Rating: 5.0

Album itself presents as excessively caffeinated jitters (the good kind) seems befitting

Album Rating: 5.0

HelloJoe, if you know anyone else who plays like this, I would genuinely love to know who it is

Album Rating: 4.0

i was initially also very impressed with matsson's playing and creativity, as the weird tunings and resulting weird shapes really threw me off in the beginning. but after a while and learning to play a bunch of my favs of his, i realized the progressions on this and TWH are actually a little basic, repetitive and samey at their core. i still love these albums, of course, but his playing and writing doesn't really come close to that of say, elliott smith, for example. i'm sure there's others, but elliott's obviously the main guy when it comes to folk and he's unmatched and will probably remain so.

Album Rating: 3.5

he has nothing on elliott thats 4 sure

elliott has more heart and songwriting prowess than this dude can ever hope to muster

Album Rating: 3.0

Nice jam Marnie Stern

Album Rating: 5.0

I think Matsson is a far better player and songwriter than Elliott

Album Rating: 5.0

elliott good songwriter matsson good songwriter both very different styles what are we doing here

Album Rating: 5.0

He is specifically alluding to folk guitarists/string players. Obviously Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Bob Dylan are atop the pantheon for folk songwriting, but can they even lick the boot of Mattson’s guitar playing? Gotta go over to bluegrass if you want anyone to contend with his particular playing style, and even then nobody jumps out to me as being better

this guy is kinda more-is-less to me, so while his talent certainly doesn’t work against him it’s uncomfortably close to feeling that way. “burden of tomorrow” and then kinda why anything else

Origami Angel kind of have a similar issue. It’s too “X genre on steroids”-feeling