Taste Test: Kalle Mattson imagines a future in ‘Ten Years Time’
The folk singer-songwriter wields his angst over the future with a new song.
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Sylvia Plath’s famous “Fig Tree” passage, found in her only novel, 1963’s The Bell Jar, digs its roots into the suffocation of not only mental health but the uncertainty of life itself. Greatly influenced by the iconic American storyteller, folklorist Kalle Mattson harvests his own meanings and convictions in the tattered feathers of his new song. On “Ten Years Time,” which contains an appropriately gummy pop hook, peers into a looking glass to see what a future could possibly hold for him. “Stop, start into my heart,” his organ lights up with possibility before fizzing out again. The terror of doom descends down, down, down but he soon employs such a fiendish sensibility to propel him back up, up, up into the light. The banjo mocks him, before disintegrating into synth-y puddles, and he loops back ’round to the start. What will become of him?
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