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Two new videos at La Blogotheque feature Kristian Matsson, aka, The Tallest Man on Earth, playing a couple of impromptu songs in a cluttered Greenwich Village music shop. Clearly intrigued by the strange amalgam of instruments lining the store’s walls, Matsson settles on a guitar from the 1800’s for “The Gardener,” then picks out the chords to the Nico/Jackson Browne standard “These Days” on a toy piano.

Shallow Grave was one of my favorite albums of last year (review). You really should hear it.