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CMAT
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‘EURO-COUNTRY’

New album
EURO-COUNTRY
out Friday 29 August

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“Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova” – The Guardian UK

“By the end of the year CMAT ought to be the biggest pop star on the planet.” – Mojo

“CMAT’s music is a powerful combination of the heartfelt and the very funny – even more so on these new tracks” – The Sunday Times

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CMAT today releases the title-track from her highly anticipated new album EURO-COUNTRY, which is set for release on Friday 29 August via AWAL Recordings.

The new single comes immediately off the back of a “career-making set” on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage – a memorable performance that received a clean sweep of 5* reviews – and comes with news that CMAT has been confirmed as one of BBC Radio 6 Music’s upcoming Artists in Residence.

CMAT explains the concept around EURO-COUNTRY: “I have certain phrases that reverberate around my head over and over again – and EURO-COUNTRY was one of them. It’s the title of the album, and the name of the first song on the record. And it means three things to me: It’s the kind of country music I make; the fact that Ireland is a European country run by the euro; and that capitalism is one of the worst things to ever happen to us”.

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Despite this being her third album, this fully-formed acronymic star feels like she’s been part of the culture forever. EURO-COUNTRY follows 2023’s brilliant Crazymad, For Me – an album that propelled her to wider attention and garnered numerous accolades: including a BRITs Best International Artist nod; and ‘Best Album’ nominations from the Ivors; Mercury Prize and the Choice Music Prize in her native Ireland (an award she won for her debut, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead).

Press, radio and television have all been integral in her rise, with numerous covers, five-star reviews, playlists, Maida Vale sessions and TV appearances, including Jools Holland (both Later… and a memorable turn on his Hootenanny) and The Graham Norton Show. A relentless touring schedule with The Very Sexy CMAT Band has cemented her reputation as one of the best live acts around.

A relentless touring schedule with The Very Sexy CMAT Band has cemented her reputation as one of the best live acts around – alongside Glastonbury, early 2025 highlights include Primavera, NOS Alive in Lisbon and a run supporting Sam Fender in the UK. Her upcoming UK and Ireland headline run – including her first arena show in Dublin – is now fully sold out.

The new album – released via AWAL Recordings – was recorded in New York and co-produced by long-time collaborator Oli Deakin and CMAT. EURO-COUNTRY tackles a number of big themes, including personal reflections on economics, identity and grief. It marks another step in the unstoppable rise of CMAT and cements her position as a generational songwriter.

What has endeared fans to her heart-sore tunes and humour is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s ability to combine contradictory themes and moods: wide-eye drama with self-deprecation; the fusion of country and pop, with even more influences stretching across decades and genres. EURO-COUNTRY is no different: an aural tight-rope walk that balances big themes, specifically: the impact of economics on a small country, the attention that comes with increased fame (not all of it good) and being a woman.

Speaking about the LP, CMAT said: “EURO-COUNTRY is, I think, the best thing I have ever made. I felt halfway through recording it was the most important record I’ve made for myself… mainly because it was making me go crazy.”

“I’m always going to make the work I want to make, because there is a little gremlin in my head that tells me if it’s shit. More than success, there’s a bigger gremlin that wants me to make music that’s really good. She’s brutal and has ruined my life at times, but she is the keeper of my life and she’s always right.”

EURO-COUNTRY is available from the CMAT store on the following physical formats: limited coloured double vinyl; standard double vinyl, CD and tape.

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CMAT
2025 TOUR DATES

* Supporting Sam Fender

May 23rd – Wide Awake Festival, London, UK
May 24th – Lovely Days, Dublin, IE
May 25th – Neighbourhood Festival, Warrington, UK
Jun 5th – Primavera, Barcelona, ESP
Jun 6th – London Stadium, London, UK *
Jun 12th – St James Park, Newcastle, UK *
Jun 14th – St James Park, Newcastle, UK *
Jun 15th – St James Park, Newcastle, UK *
Jun 21st – 02 Academy, Liverpool
Jun 22nd – Esquires, Bedford
Jun 24th – Princess Pavilion, Falmouth
Jun 25th – Cheese and Grain, Frome
Jun 27th – Glastonbury, UK
Jul 12th – NOS, Lisbon, POR
Jul 26th – Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
Jul 27th – Tramlines Festival, Sheffield, UK
Aug 1st – Belladrum Tartan Heart, Belladrum, UK
Aug 2nd – All Together Now, Waterford, IRE
Aug 7th – Syd For Solen, Copenhagen, DEN
Aug 8th – Way Out West, Gothenburg, SWE
Aug 14th – Cabaret Vert, Charleville Mezieres, FR
Aug 15th – Lowlands, Biddinghuizen, NL
Aug 16th – Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, UK
Aug 28th – Boucher Playing Fields, Belfast, UK *
Sep 08th – The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, US
Sep 10th – Gothic Theatre, Englewood, US
Sep 12th – Fine Line, Minneapolis, US
Sep 13th – Park West, Chicago, US
Sep 15th – The Concert Hall, Toronto, CA
Sep 17th – Paradise Rock Club, Boston, US
Sep 18th – Webster Hall, New York, US
Sep 20th – Shaky Knees, Atlanta, US
Sep 21st – Basement East, Nashville, US
Oct 2nd – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 4th – Academy, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 5th – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
Oct 6th – NX, Newcastle, UK
Oct 8th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
Oct 9th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 10th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 12th – Rock City, Nottingham, UK
Oct 13th – Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK
Oct 15th – Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, UK
Oct 16th – O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK
Oct 17th – UEA, Norwich, UK
Oct 19th – Octagon, Sheffield, UK
Oct 20th – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK – SOLD OUT
Dec 5th – 3Arena, Dublin, IRE – SOLD OUT

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 Title track “EURO-COUNTRY” by CMAT is out now.
CMAT’s new album EURO-COUNTRY will arrive Friday 29 August 2025.
Pre-order / save the album HERE.

EURO-COUNTRY
Tracklist

1. Billy Byrne From Ballybrack, The Leader Of The Pigeon Convoy
2.  EURO-COUNTRY
3. When A Good Man Cries
4. The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
5. Three Six Foive
6. Take A Sexy Picture Of Me
7. Ready
8. Iceberg
9. Coronation St.
10. Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
11. Running/Planning
12. Janis Joplining

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