"It's no concept album" - Matt Maltese is back with news of a brand new full-length, 'Driving Just To Drive'

Matt Maltese is back with news of a brand new album.

His fourth full-length, 'Driving Just To Drive' is out on 28th April via Nettwerk. It follows on from a big few years, during which Matt has been racking up streams, picking up name-y TikTok fans (Doja Cat! BTS' Kim Taehyung!), and co-writing with the likes of Joy Crookes and Celeste.

"I think getting older and busier, you can sometimes create a rewards-system in your brain, where every action needs to have a reason for doing that action," he says of the release. "But there’s also a whole new fresh load of doom out there that sometimes can put our obsession with personal ‘growth’ into perspective. I often live in a building-block mindset where I need to do this thing so I can do that thing and that means I’ll have a chance at that other thing. In the meantime, there are all these uncontrollable (and maybe even unchangeable) realities, like a wealth-bias financial system and an exponentially heating world, that could render all the productivity pointless."

He continues: "I thought a lot back to being younger and how much more I used to do things just to do them. Playing on a playground as a kid or just going for a drive and listening to music in the car. I used to love stuff with no sense of an outcome, with no sense of self-imposed necessity. I think it’s important to have some of that in our lives."

Check out the title-track from the release below, and find out more about the record from Matt himself.