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  • Summary: The fourth full-length release from London-based singer-songwriter Matt Maltese features a guest appearance by Biig Piig.
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  1. Apr 28, 2023
    80
    His soft voice and natural sense of melody give these songs enough musical prowess to keep up with the best while still seeming innocent and green to the world around them. Maltese’s vulnerability makes him one of the more relatable and pure artists working today and his fourth album further proves that we are far from hearing the last and best music Maltese has to offer.
  2. 80
    Fans of Maltese’s typically lucid approach may find this impressionism frustrating, but it gradually builds an effective picture of fear. Here, his sense of scale is more nuanced and outward-facing than ever before, and in turn, Maltese’s writing will continue to become all the more captivating for it.
  3. Apr 28, 2023
    70
    There’s a warm domesticity to many of these tracks that’s smaller and softer than the apocalyptic balladry that first made his name; these are vignettes plucked from a Richard Curtis movie - romantic and relatable, with all the humorous foibles left in.
  4. Apr 28, 2023
    60
    ‘Driving Just to Drive’ drives safely. Perhaps too safely. We may yearn for Maltese to put his foot down, but it could be argued there is solace in safety. Not everything has to be hell for leather.
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  1. May 3, 2023
    9
    Now I just want to take my mother's car and go around listening to Maltese's newest album.

    I confess that I wasn't even prepared for its
    Now I just want to take my mother's car and go around listening to Maltese's newest album.

    I confess that I wasn't even prepared for its release, even listening to "Mother" the day it was released as a lead-single, this song is comforting , the dialogue in the chorus is interesting, the vision of a fact, true feelings.
    Their singles were chosen correctly, "Museum" and "Florence" are amazing songs. I feel an optimism in this album, even if it's not meant to represent, it's light, we need to hear it in a sunset alone trying as much as possible to mature and move on, however painful it is, sometimes I just want to drive just for driving!
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