The Tallest Man On Earth Details New Album ‘Just Beyond Endless Mountain’

The Tallest Man on Earth, the project of Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson, will release a new album, Just Beyond Endless Mountain, on October 9 through ANTI- Records. Matsson shared a video for “Deliver Me From Trying,” a track from the album, alongside the announcement.

Matsson recorded the album after returning to his native Dalarna region in central Sweden, where he grew up surrounded by fiddle music and other local folk traditions. He said the traditions he had moved away from as a younger musician shaped the new record’s sound.

“Somewhere along the way I’d developed this immature aversion to the whole cultural inheritance I grew up with,” Matsson said. “But now I live here again. I’ve read an incredible amount, not just about the music, but about how people actually lived in the old days. I think that’s part of why this record feels more like me than anything I’ve made before.”

“Deliver Me From Trying,” is one of 11 songs on Just Beyond Endless Mountain. Matsson previously shared the album track “Colors.” The music video for “Deliver Me From Trying” was filmed in the Swedish countryside.

“When I listened back to it, I thought, ‘Yeah… okay. Good job, Kristian. You didn’t really know what you were doing there,'” Matsson said. “‘Deliver Me From Trying,’ just let me stop trying. That line just appeared, and it wasn’t until later that I realized what it meant. It says a lot about where I was at.”

Matsson will begin a U.S. tour on October 15 in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, following the album’s release. Watch the “Deliver Me From Trying” video below:

Just Beyond Endless Mountain Tracklist

1. The Wildest of His Dreams
2. Colors
3. We Got The Pony
4. Scully, It’s Me
5. Just Beyond Endless Mountain
6. Overboda
7. Deliver Me From Trying
8. Times
9. The Forest Keeper
10. In The Silver Wire Up The Hill
11. The Village