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Themes like the banality and loneliness of life have consistently weighed heavy on 23 year old London artist Matt Maltese’s records.
Heck, his 2018 debut album Bad Contestant contains a song so impossibly on-the-nose for our present end-of-times situation, the dystopian ‘As The World Caves In’, it could have been written in isolation two weeks ago rather than two years back.
Fast forward to the tumultuous present day and Maltese has harnessed a common feeling of collective solitude once more. His appropriately-titled new EP Madhouse isn’t just a score for the everyday boredoms we encounter, it’s a musing on us human beings’ “ever-hopeful quest for meaning and love.” A more virtuous and lofty aspiration, at least while Tinder’s hook ups are out the window for the time being. Maltese has always nailed lonesome provocations with idiosyncratic dry wit but Madhouse reckons with those emotions in a way the half British, half Canadian hasn’t yet fully explored until now. “I’ve found that sometimes the majority of the emotional journey of love and life is actually the search for an understanding of it.
Written around the time of Krystal, the track finally finds its spiritual home on the Madhouse EP. Matt Maltese, as ever, right on the money. Whether he intended to be or not.
Heck, his 2018 debut album Bad Contestant contains a song so impossibly on-the-nose for our present end-of-times situation, the dystopian ‘As The World Caves In’, it could have been written in isolation two weeks ago rather than two years back.
Fast forward to the tumultuous present day and Maltese has harnessed a common feeling of collective solitude once more. His appropriately-titled new EP Madhouse isn’t just a score for the everyday boredoms we encounter, it’s a musing on us human beings’ “ever-hopeful quest for meaning and love.” A more virtuous and lofty aspiration, at least while Tinder’s hook ups are out the window for the time being. Maltese has always nailed lonesome provocations with idiosyncratic dry wit but Madhouse reckons with those emotions in a way the half British, half Canadian hasn’t yet fully explored until now. “I’ve found that sometimes the majority of the emotional journey of love and life is actually the search for an understanding of it.
Written around the time of Krystal, the track finally finds its spiritual home on the Madhouse EP. Matt Maltese, as ever, right on the money. Whether he intended to be or not.
Tracklist
1. Little person
2. Queen Bee
3. Hi
4. Madhouse
5. Leather Wearing
6. Sad Dream
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