Katie Gregson-MacLeod releases "Teenage Love" on Matt Maltese’s Last Recordings On Earth

"'Teenage Love’ honours the small but mighty part of me where anger resides. I wrote the majority of the song over two years ago, making sense of some new resentment I was feeling on behalf of a younger me," says Katie Gregson-MacLeod.

"As a teenage girl, there is a feeling that ‘angry’ is the ugliest thing you can be. Only in hindsight did I realise the power anger would have given me back then; a power that I thought I would land on in the pursuit of appearing ‘mature’ or ‘patient’. The song doesn’t regret, but it questions a lot. It sieves through some residue from past relationships; unanswered questions, resentments. It also laughs at it all the way we must to make sense of it".

Starting out as a poem written on a trip to LA, the track was initially left unfinished during a time of big change, after parting ways with her former major label home in Spring 2024. It was during this time she met with friend and previous co-writer Matt Maltese, who was keen to bring Gregson-MacLeod onboard to his newly formed label - Last Recordings On Earth.

After playing him a demo of the track, the duo were in agreement that now was its time. Speaking on her signing, Matt Maltese adds: "Since writing with Katie years ago, I’ve always been a huge admirer of her ability to combine sadness, humour, anger and poise all at once in her work. She's undeniably a songwriter’s songwriter and I can’t wait to be a part of all the brilliant music to come."