Matt Maltese released his latest album Hers, earlier this year via Communion/Last Recordings On Earth, The LP probably his most insular and intimate project to date. Maltese has long drawn from the tried and tested artistic wellspring of romance and heartbreak, but the songs that make up Hers find him reflecting upon a serious long-term relationship and the more grown-up complexities of love through the rearview, with the quiet artfulness for which he has become so beloved.

Having first established himself as a songwriter, Maltese released debut album Bad Contestant back in 2018. The three albums that followed over the next five years cemented his position as one of the UK’s finest young songwriters. Since the release of 2023’s Driving Just To Drive, Maltese has been busy in multiple behind the scenes roles, lending his songwriting abilities to a number of fellow artists, and establishing indie label Last Recordings On Earth. Last year saw Matt share covers album Songs That Aren’t Mine, a collection of some of his favourite songs, recorded at home with guest features by friends including Dora Jar and Liana Flores. Elsewhere, he made his theatre songwriting debut, composing all original music and lyrics for The Royal Shakespeare Company’s winter production of Twelfth Night. 

Records and artists referenced by Matt Matese (in no particular order)

Hers – Matt Maltese
Songs That Aren’t Mine – Matt Maltese
Nothing Compares 2 U – Prince
Spiderman In The Flesh – Country Teasers
Last Recordings On Earth
Communion (Record Label)
C Rose
Hetta Falzon
Katie Gregson-MacLeod
Death in the Business of Whaling – searows
Love Me Too Well, I’ll Retire Early – Katie Gregson-MacLeod
Dominic (Dom) Monks
Big Thief
Solo Piano – Gonzales
Room 29 – Chilly Gonzalez/Jarvis Cocker
Jacob Alon
In Limerence – Jacob Alon
Imogen and the Knife
Used to Beauty – Imogen and the Knife
Death Of A Ladies’ Man – Leonard Cohen
I’m Your Man – Leonard Cohen
Baltimore – Nina Simone
Leonard Cohen
Hunky Dory – David Bowie

Edited by Henry Martins
Hosted and produced by Charles Brownstein

Thank you

Matt Maltese
The Oriel
Alina Sheeran
Amy Fennie
Elizabeth Wiltshire
The Orchard
Intro Music by Simon Lock
Jeffrey Powell
Moses Brownstein
Shauna Theroux

Thanks again for watching,
Charles

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