Matt Maeson has set his return with the new album, 'A Quiet and Harmless Living,' due out everywhere on September 12. The fearless singer/songwriter has offered up two previews of the project, and dug a little deeper with Brad Steiner during an Audacy Check In inside the Rock Star Suite at Hard Rock Hotel New York.

After being noted as "the most likeable man in music" by Brad, Maeson went on to explain how he's become more vulnerable thanks to his child. "I think the pressure fell off a bit once I had a kid because I was like, 'oh, this isn't the most important thing to me anymore,'" Matt explains. "For me, it just feels really inauthentic and kind of corny to lean into the, 'I'm the star' shtick, and I just grew further and further from that and now I physically cannot do stuff like that makes me look like something I'm not."

Always open in his music, Maeson continues and intensifies his hallmark on 'A Quiet and Harmless Living.' "There's a lot in there that's very vulnerable, very honest," he shares. "The song 'Everlasting' that I put out, it's a lot of really ugly thoughts but thoughts that I'm like, 'I need to say these out loud to process them,' and music is a great avenue for that. It's a lot of things that I think so many people think that [they] just don't talk about it because they're ugly thoughts. They're thoughts that like people, if you just say it to them, they're gonna be like, 'whoa, you're kind of a piece of s***,' but it's like thoughts that we all have that we need to vocalize and and process through together."

"The way that I write music is like, I have to, and the reason it takes me so long is because I have to kind of experience these things and then either process or heal these things and then I'm able to write about it, for the most part," Matt details. "By the time I usually put these songs out, a lot of the subjects are things that I've healed from, but even just acknowledging those issues is a part of that process of figuring it out."

After the healing, Maeson still feels a responsibility with his music, knowing there is always somewhere out there dealing with the same issues he might have faced years ago. "There's always somebody out there that's dealing with this thing right now and I'm singing that for them," he says. "The repetition of just playing the song, it's annoying. I will say, 'Hallucinogenics' I still love playing, which is surprising because I've played that thousands of times. 'Cringe,' I would love to never play that song again in my life... and I'm gonna do it again on this tour, plenty. I'm gonna look like I love it."

To hear more from Matt Maeson on his approach to social media and the impact his location has had on his music, listen to the full Audacy Check In above.