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.Secret Sounds presents
CMAT
‘EURO-COUNTRY’
Australian Tour – January 2026PERTH | SYDNEY | BRISBANE | MELBOURNE
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The Guardian 5/5 “A rolling sea of charm, chaos, substance, sadness and piercing insight – and yet more proof this nascent star is in a class of her own”
The Telegraph 5/5 “The flame-haired Irish singer is exactly what the industry is crying out for”
The i 5/5 “(CMAT) is a singular artist and EURO-COUNTRY is the album of the year”
Rolling Stone UK 5/5 “A catchy, important and hilarious album from a singer who is deservedly set to be the breakout star of 2025”
Pitchfork “(CMAT’s) new album overflows with comedy, tragedy, and self-lacerating wit. It’s a bold statement from a true original.”
Mojo “By the end of the year CMAT ought to be the biggest pop star on the planet.”
CMAT today releases her hotly anticipated and critically acclaimed new album, EURO-COUNTRY.
The multiple 5*-reviewed album is an aural tight-rope walk that balances big themes – re-evaluating where you come from; the impact of economics on a small country; the pressure of increased fame – with her most immediate songs to date. It follows a huge summer for the Irish star: from a “career making” Glastonbury Pyramid set via the ‘Woke Macarena’ viral TikTok trend to charting singles in UK & Ireland.
CMAT also today announces new UK & Ireland headline 2026 tour dates – the shows with her Very Sexy CMAT Band include London’s Alexandra Palace and two huge outdoor gigs in Ireland; St Anne’s Park, Dublin and Virgin Media Park, Cork.
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.”
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.
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.
EURO-COUNTRY, crowned Feature Album of the Week on Double J upon release, has been praised by the likes of The Guardian, Mojo and Rolling Stone UK, earning multiple 5-star reviews. On stage with her Very Sexy CMAT Band, audiences experience her impressive 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.
A relentless touring schedule has cemented CMAT’s reputation as one of the best live acts around – alongside Glastonbury, 2025 highlights include Green Man, Primavera, Pukkelpop, NOS Alive and a UK run supporting Sam Fender, and upcoming headline shows across the US, UK and Ireland.
Recorded in New York and co-produced by long-time collaborator Oli Deakin, EURO-COUNTRY tackles big themes – re-evaluating where you come from; the impact of economics on a small country; the pressure of increased fame – with her most immediate songs to date. The album capped off a huge summer for the Irish star: from a “career making” (The Guardian) Glastonbury Pyramid Stage via to the viral ‘Woke Macarena’ TikTok trend, it debuted at #1 on the Irish Album Charts and secured Top 2 positions in both the UK and Scotland.
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.”
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.
“The album title works on three levels: the kind of country music I make; the fact that Ireland is a European country, a country run by the euro, and capitalism is one of the worst things to ever happen to us.
So, I would consider this my most country record, as in, steeped in the traditions of country. But neither Oli [Deakin, Producer] or I wanted to make something that we’d heard before. If we know that the thing we’re doing already exists, we have to fight against it, and find a more interesting, more beautiful way of making it. So there’s slide guitar and fiddle playing, but to a lot of listeners it will sound not country, but it is! We were just trying to bend the barriers of it a bit.
And on a wider level, EURO-COUNTRY is the name I’ve given to the pain of the loss of community that has happened over the last twenty to thirty years. Nobody is hanging out anymore, nobody is talking to each other, nobody is living together anymore. The shape of life, not just family life, but adult life, has completely transformed from the way it was before the internet and gig economy and I feel like it’s so responsible for so much of the societal and mental health issues that are really drilling everyone under the age of 35 right now. It feels so individualistic. It feels like such a product of late capitalism. And I couldn’t get it out of my head.”
EURO-COUNTRY marks another step in the unstoppable rise of CMAT and cements her position as a generational songwriter. Don’t miss out when she performs the celebrated album live across Australia throughout January 2026. Tickets go on sale from 11am local time on Monday 15 September.
.CMAT
EURO-COUNTRY
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
– JANUARY 2026Tuesday 20 January – Astor Theatre Perth
Saturday 24 January – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Sunday 25 January – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
Tuesday 27 January – Forum, MelbourneCMAT
2025 INTERNATIONAL
TOUR DATESSep 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 – SOLD OUT
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 – SOLD OUT
Oct 6th – NX, Newcastle, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 8th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 9th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 10th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 12th – Rock City, Nottingham, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 13th – Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 15th – Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 17th – UEA, Norwich, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 19th – Octagon, Sheffield, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 20th – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 22nd – Depot, Cardiff, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 23rd – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK – SOLD OUT
Dec 5th – 3Arena, Dublin, IRE – SOLD OUT
March 6th – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, UK – sold out
March 7th – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, UK – sold out
March 9th – Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK
March 11th – 02 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK – sold out
March 12th – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK – sold out
March 13th – Alexandra Palace, London, UK – sold out
May 30th – St Anne’s Park, Dublin, IRE – sold out
Jun 20th – Virgin Media Park, Cork, IRETICKETS
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.EURO-COUNTRY by CMAT is out now via AWAL Recordings
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EURO-COUNTRY
Tracklist1. 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 JopliningFollow CMAT
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