Alexandra Alden

Maltese-English singer-songwriter Alexandra Alden makes music that feels like sunlight hitting the darkened corners of a room — intimate and disarming, a sudden warm exposure of things usually left in the shadows. Alden came up the hard way. Before the stages and the awards, there were the odd jobs; housemaid, barmaid, waitress - the kind of unglamorous groundwork that has a way of making its way into songs. A period of profound personal upheaval followed, which saw her retreat to the mountains to rebuild, and ultimately gave birth to her latest album ‘When Is It Too Late?’ (2025), acclaimed by both OOR and Clash Magazine and hailed as her most fully realised work to date. Finished at the Bert Jansch Studio in Frome — home to Flyte, and a space connected to Big Thief — the album is inspired by the liminal spaces of Edward Hopper, the poetic precision of Sylvia Plath, and the wide-open driving melancholy of The War on Drugs. It is a record that finds beauty in the in-between; the neon haze of a late-night club giving way to the quiet of a morning alone. In her native Malta, Alden is a genuine household name. She landed two #1 singles on national radio at just 18, served as a judge on X Factor Malta, and performed her song Wild Honey & Thyme at a national protest in defence of freedom of speech — a rare instance of mainstream success and radical honesty existing comfortably side by side.