Matt Maltese shares new cut "Museum"

"Museum" is the third outing from Maltese's new album, following January's title-track "Driving Just To Drive" and October's "Mother", and lands with a video directed by Anna Patarakina.

Maltese says of the track, which features backing vocals from Sorry’s Asha Lorenz, "This song, along with "Mother", was really a building block for the album. It came from really reflecting on my relationship to my hometown of Reading. You change a lot but these places hold those different versions of yourself that you were and that you can’t change. I always couldn’t wait to leave Reading… it had that middle-ground feeling between city and countryside, and I craved the city. It’s funny because I have often felt like my life didn’t really begin until I moved to London at 18. In some ways that’s true, but also there’s a whole life lived in this other place that I’ve frankly never really wanted to think about or write about."

He adds, "I like my current self more than my teenage self, but I also realised it’s a shame to not see how the present is so intertwined and indebted to the past. Every day you’ve lived shapes who you’ve become, and Reading has been home for a lot of those days, even if it isn’t now. Even reacting against it has shaped me. I think I finally feel a lot more like I want to embrace it, even if I can’t relate to those years as much anymore."

Driving Just To Drive will follow Maltese's 2021 album Good Morning It’s Now Tomorrow, and saw him work with producer Josh Scarbrow. "I’m bad at letting go to make someone else help me, but I’ve got better," Maltese says. "Sharing those moments in real life with another person is just really nice. Josh hadn’t made an album before which I loved, and also working with someone my age ended up being really important."