At just twenty-five, Matt Hansen has learnt to turn emotion into action. His new single, Don’t Look Back is an igniting confession; a cinematic love song that captures the risk of connection and the freedom that follows when you stop resisting it. “It is all the things you want to say to your partner when you’re falling in love,” he shares. “The ‘Let’s do this, be my person’ talk in song form.”
The track arrives amid a breakthrough year that has seen Hansen cross the billion-stream mark and grow a devoted fanbase of over six million monthly listeners. Entirely independent, he’s built a world of genuine storytelling and unfiltered vulnerability, thriving where intimacy meets scale. Tomorrow, he performs in Australia as part of his sold-out headline tour across New Zealand and Australia, a run that leads straight into his North American dates supporting Dean Lewis in early 2026.
With fan favourites like Something to Remember, Yellowstone, LET EM GO, and Forever Again, Hansen’s songwriting remains anchored in emotional truth. Don’t Look Back continues that lineage with a fuller, more confident sound; layered vocals soar above open-hearted instrumentation that feels tailor-made for the stage. It’s the sound of someone learning to trust himself as much as he trusts his audience.
“Don’t Look Back is a nod of encouragement,” Hansen says. “It’s also a reminder to myself to keep leaning in and be accountable in all those same ways.” That duality, the personal and the universal, defines his ascent. From small-room intimacy to arena-ready vulnerability, Matt Hansen keeps proving that forward motion isn’t about leaving things behind but about carrying them with purpose.