Would it be fair to call this a break-up record?
I think there is a theme of heartbreak, but it's very broad. It is break-up in the sense that it's about losing someone, but it's also about all the other parts of love, too. There's a lot of falling in love with people there and falling in love with love. I don't really wanna announce it as a break-up album, because I know I will have many more break-up albums, so I think it's half-true this time round.
Are you worried you'll run out of real experiences to write songs about?
Definitely, I worry about it every day. This idea that I might've just written the last song that I'll ever write is scary, but I feel like worrying about it isn't good. I think it's important not to base your life around wanting it to be a song. As long as I don't fall into that horrible pattern of seeing your own life as a movie, it should be ok.
Why is the title-track called 'Krystal' with a K?
Well, it's not the name of an actual person, but in London, whenever I take the bus, I feel like I see places with Krystal in the name. I live just off the Old Kent Road in South London, and I'm faced with these shops all the time
laughs.
The feeling and emotion in the song is real, but I didn't want to name the person and that word, whether I liked it or not, just kept popping up in my face, so that's kind of how that happened.
Why did you pick it as the title-track?
I felt like it was a bit different from the rest of the record in that it doesn't have humour, it's just a very honest song in its soppiness, and I liked that. I didn't want the name of the album to be a pun, as much as I like puns, I just wanted it to be a title with no curtains.
What would be the most flattering comparison someone could make to the album?
There are lots of answers, I just hope they would say something good. I'm worried that I'll answer and it'll bite me in the arse! I guess any good album with heartbreaks, although there are a bunch of those... I'm not going to be able to answer this one, because I'll regret any answer, definitely.
Taken from the November issue of Dork. Matt Maltese's album 'Krystal' is out 8th November. 
