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News: EURO-COUNTRY: CMAT’s third LP lands today

  • August 28, 2025
  • Deb Pelser
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CMAT has released her third album, EURO-COUNTRY — a record that expands her country-pop world while interrogating the economic and cultural shifts shaping modern life. Out now via AWAL Recordings, the LP was recorded in New York with long-time collaborator Oli Deakin and threads together themes of identity, community, grief and capitalism with her sharpest songwriting to date.

Stream EURO-COUNTRY HERE.

Speaking about the record, CMAT described it as her “most country” work so far, though one that resists easy classification: “If we know the thing we’re doing already exists, we have to fight against it and find a more interesting way of making it.” The result blends traditional textures like slide guitar and fiddle with a restless urge to push the genre’s boundaries.

The album’s release follows a breakthrough stretch for the Irish artist — from a viral Glastonbury set to a sold-out arena show in Dublin — and arrives with news of an extensive UK and Ireland headline tour in 2026, including dates at Alexandra Palace, St Anne’s Park and Virgin Media Park.

For CMAT, EURO-COUNTRY is both personal and political: a reflection on where she comes from, the changing shape of adult life under late capitalism, and the sense of community loss that defines a generation.

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