“I should get a PhD in yearning all the time,” Matt Maltese sings on his sixth album. And he truly deserves one. In 2016, barely out of his teens, the British-Canadian singer-songwriter released a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Paper Thin Hotel”, a song about hearing the object of your affection making love in the room next door. By his own admission, he listened to “an unhealthy amount” of Cohen when he was young, so it’s not all that surprising that he has a penchant for melancholy and melodrama. And just as the late crooner did, he’s devoted much of his career to highlighting the complexity of relationships – and the heartache that tends to follow. His yearning, however, has never been as intense as on Hers.
As its title suggests, his new album is…