CMAT - Euro-Country - CD [AUG 29]

CD - Digipack. 

It’s almost inconceivable that it’s only five years since the arrival of CMAT, as she approaches the release of her third album, EURO-COUNTRY. This BRITs / Mercury / Ivors-nominated acronymic star feels like she’s been part of the culture forever - and what has endeared fans to her heart-sore tunes and humour is CMAT's ability to combine contradictory themes and moods: wide-eye drama with self-deprecation. Country music has always been a lynchpin for CMAT, but this is country in an augmented, reimagined way. Mixed with classic indie and affirmative soul-pop, it resists the music industry’s desire to pigeonhole artists as one genre. Not only is there a palpable tonal shift, EURO-COUNTRY also feels like a huge step-up creatively. There is a sense of determination, of urgency, of ‘gather round and listen up’. From re-evaluating where you come from (geographically, metaphorically) and the impact of economics on a small country, to the attention that comes with increased fame (not all of it good) and being a woman in the music industry.

Tracklist: 

1. Billy Byrne from Ballybrack, the Leader of the Pigeon Convoy [0:57]
2. Euro-Country    [4:56]
3. When a Good Man Cries    [4:32]
4. The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station    [5:23]
5. Tree Six Foive    [3:51]
6. Take a Sexy Picture of Me    [3:49]
7. Ready    [3:36]
8. Iceberg    [4:17]
9. Coronation St.    [4:02]
10. Lord, Let That Tesla Crash    [5:06]
11. Running/Planning    [4:27]
12. Janis Joplining    [4:24]