Matt Maltese Unveils New Album ‘Hers’

Singer songwriter Matt Maltese has released his sixth studio album ‘Hers’ via The Orchard on May 16. The album arrives as Maltese’s most insular and intimate project to date, and his first fully self-produced effort since his second album ‘Krystal’. 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. ‘Hers’ exists in a twilight world, pairing heartfelt songwriting and dry witticism with the gentle quiver of strings, a flourish of woodwind or the sound of a creaking old piano. “I’ve written a lot of music that comes from a place of infatuation, but this record was written on reflection of a much longer-term love. The complications and wonderful roads that that goes through and the more informed heartaches that come out of it. I got to really reflect and slave over it… It’s a bit like having a year to write a really important email,” he says. “I’m British enough to feel a slight shame of writing so many love songs in the past,” he adds. “Maybe the more interesting thing [...]