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I Love You. It's a Fever Dream
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  • Summary: The first release in four years for Kristian Matsson as The Tallest Man On Earth was recorded in his Brooklyn apartment.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Sputnikmusic
    Apr 23, 2019
    100
    What a gorgeous, powerful album of self-discovery this is.
  2. Glide Magazine
    Apr 29, 2019
    80
    While not peddling anything particularly new, Matsson’s legion of devoted fans will nonetheless find what they want and more in I Love You. It’s A Fever Dream. The skeptics will likely stay that way, but then you get the sense that’s the least of Matsson’s concerns.
  3. Q Magazine
    Jul 2, 2019
    80
    I Love You. It's A Fever Dream is hardly cluttered, but it's those little details that really lift his fifth LP as The Tallest Man On Earth. [Aug 2019, p.116]
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  4. AllMusic
    May 17, 2019
    70
    Even when the songs tend towards harrowing, questioning themes, I Love You. It's a Fever Dream still sounds romantic, soft, and even a little bit naïve. The deepening emotional content that Matsson laces into his familiarly sweet songwriting makes this set of songs one of his most resonant and revisitable.
  5. Uncut
    May 17, 2019
    70
    A surprisingly introspective album. [Jul 2019, p.37]
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  6. Consequence
    Apr 23, 2019
    67
    It’s a solemn, languid ambience, like a late summer breeze--pleasant, but verging on boring. For die-hard fans of The Tallest Man on Earth, there’s plenty of material to latch onto here, but for everyone else, the music floats around so much that there isn’t much solid ground for entry.
  7. Sputnikmusic
    Apr 23, 2019
    56
    There's No Leaving Now was almost as good as The Wild Hunt--and now I Love You. It’s a Fever Dream. is almost as good as There's No Leaving Now. It’s diminishing returns on the same approach, and with this album we’ll definitely find ourselves satisfied yet again--only with another layer of appreciation eroded.

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  1. GSWstatic
    Feb 23, 2022
    8
    self-discovery a return to being a solo act with a little help from friends here and there. written and recorded in November of 2018 a solidself-discovery a return to being a solo act with a little help from friends here and there. written and recorded in November of 2018 a solid continuation of the music projects when the bird sees the solid ground and the light in demos. great songwriting backed up by solid soulful performance. I'll be sky, my dear and waiting form my ghost are along with the title track make it a great record forget the 1st song hotel bar and dig into the rest… Expand
  2. Joemax
    Oct 4, 2019
    8
    Fabulous bass rhythm, achieved with harmonica, clear voice very good positive poems.
  4. Praegarn
    Aug 14, 2019
    2
    Dark bird might be the greatest release of any time. This was... good... but not great