Matt Maltese Lyrics

A songwriter along traditional lines, Matt Maltese has mostly released intimate songs made up of just himself, his piano and his voice. His existing musings of piano ploddings joined together with rolling vocals that are controlled, relaxed or haunting are rife on his records such as his only previous EP release called ‘In a New Bed’.

Bearded Magazine said "Rarely wandering into a heavier music than his idols of Leonard Cohen (he recently covered Cohen’s Paper Thin Hotel in typical stripped-back style with oddly coherent vocal mutterings) or Nick Cave, latest single ‘Vacant in the 21st Century’ is almost a departure from his original direction. With the addition of crunching guitars and reverberating vocals this is much louder and bigger. While lyrically the topics are just as heavy in tone as his idols, Maltese has added a giant crescendo to his quiet musings.

“Doomed kids, self-obsessed twins, dysfunctional married drones and a grandmother living in a shopping channel. All inside Great Britain.” That’s how Matt Maltese summed up his latest single ‘Vacant in the 21st Century’ on his Facebook page – he also added a p.s of “Someone please show this to the Trump across the pond.” And that theme of investigating society, whether on a microscopic level or wider is a running theme throughout his songs. -beardedmagazine.com