“Matt Maltese is on a quest to explain himself. On his debut effort, 2018’s ‘Bad Contestant’, the Anglo-Canadian artist delivered his brassy and witty – yet wholly self-aware – jazz-pop songs via an outsized character in order to accommodate his unease about sharing his hopes and fears with the world. Through the role of a unfailingly sardonic crooner, he’d found a way to be both flamboyant and sel”
