- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Release Date: Jun 12, 2012
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Aug 8, 2012Overall, There's No Leaving Now is a cohesive, wonderful album.
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Jun 25, 2012There's No Leaving Now is an album that begs to be picked apart, but that can't be picked at.
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Jun 13, 2012There's No Leaving Now settles too readily into a single slumberous mood. It's all pull and no push.
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Jun 13, 2012With a voice that creaks like well-loved furniture and lyrics telling tales of the lives and losses of others, this album represents a career highpoint.
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Jun 13, 2012You can bring your emotional baggage to There's No Leaving Now, whatever its weight or shape, and Matsson will help you carry it.
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Jun 12, 2012It's a pretty and intimately rendered collection of folk songs, but those moments of jarringly direct, piercing emotion are few.
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Jun 12, 2012There's No Leaving Now is another sweetly concise collection of ten songs by the eloquent Swede, whose nationality remains brilliantly masked by a Midwestern twang.
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Jun 12, 2012The Tallest Man on Earth continues his approach; it's both likable and rousing.
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Jun 12, 2012Matsson employs more (though still not much) instrumental shadings to his heart-rending songs on There's No Leaving Now, though he's still riding mostly on the quality of his songs and the spunk of his performances.
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Jun 12, 2012There's No Leaving Now is one of the best albums of the year.
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Jun 11, 2012There's No Leaving Now succeeds best when he breaks out of that mode of one enjoyable enough ingredient constantly reused, or at least tempers it more thoroughly than at other times.
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Alternative PressJun 8, 2012Matsson's third LP is a wide-eyed exercise in water testing, adding counterpoint and pathos to his road-worn sneer and elegiac melodies. [Jul 2012, p.100]
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UncutJun 8, 2012Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson has upped his skill factors on this. [Jul 3012, p.84]
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Jun 8, 2012With mystique to spare, it's a record to cherish.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 39
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Mixed: 2 out of 39
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Negative: 1 out of 39
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