title: The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get
text: # The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get
  
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  The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get is an album by the American post-punk band My Dad Is Dead, released in 1989 through Homestead Records.
  
  ## Production
  
  Aside from some bass and accordion, Mark Edwards played all of the instruments on the album.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Trouser Press wrote: "Edwards veers relatively close to the musical mainstream ... with considerable success. His lyrics, meanwhile, have grown less morose and more philosophical, and he sings them with new-found expressiveness." Tiny Mix Tapes wrote that the album "covers everything from pretty, jangly guitar instrumentals to Joy Division- and Devo-referencing New Wave numbers."
  
  