Trailblazing Irish pop queen CMAT has returned today with new single ‘The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station,’ a transcendental new indie- kraut stomp that, on the surface, reads as a diss track to Jamie Oliver, but is in fact about the realisation that hatred serves no purpose to anyone. Laced with her signature honeyed vocals, buoyant percussion, widescreen cathartic riffs and smart, sassy lyrics, CMAT is the real deal, bursting with unstoppable raw, authentic talent. It’s the third single to be taken from her new album EURO-COUNTRY, set for release on August 29th.
CMAT says, “The whole point of the song is actually my annoyance and intolerance and hatred of other people serves absolutely no purpose in my life and is a really bad instinct that I have. So it’s actually a love song for Jamie Oliver, if you think about it. It’s me being like ‘don’t be a bitch and stop judging people for annoyances“
Recent single’Take A Sexy Picture Of Me’ continues to blaze its own trail – thanks in part to a fan-created viral dance, dubbed ‘The Woke Macarena’. After reverberating around social media, with the likes of Julia Fox and Amelia Dimoldenberg showing off their skills, recent CMAT shows at the likes of Primavera, Wide Awake and Neighbourhood have seen thousands of fans doing both “leg tings and hand stuff.”
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.”
Next week, CMAT will perform on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury – 1.30pm set time on Friday June 27th. CMAT also today, she has announces a run of instore performances. See dates here: CMAT Record Store Tour
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).
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
CMAT – EURO-COUNTRY is out on AWAL Recordings on 29th August
See here for tour dates and album details see: here
| EURO-COUNTRY is available from the CMAT store on the following physical formats: limited coloured double vinyl; standard double vinyl, CD and tape.https://cmat.ffm.to/EURO-COUNTRY |
