CMAT has announced her new album, Euro-Country, as well as a string of tour dates that includes her first-ever headline performance at the 3Arena in Dublin.
The new album - the singer's third - is set for release on 29 August, with single, Running/Planning, is out now.
She also unveiled a run of live dates across Ireland, Europe and the UK - including a high-profile Glastonbury slot and her biggest headliners to date: London’s O2 Academy Brixton and the 3Arena on Friday December 5.
Keeping it country (kinda) with the bold, brassy and sassy CMAT
Tickets for the 3Arena gig are priced from €47.20 to €53.85, subject to Ticketmaster charges, and go on sale Friday, 4 April at 10am via the Ticketmaster.ie website.
On Running/Planning - premiered last night as a Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1 - CMAT says: "Running/Planning is about having to chase your own tail to be good enough to exist.
"It’s an abstracted view of societal pressure on women - specifically through a relationship lens: You start dating someone, you get engaged, you get married, you have kids etc etc etc… everything has to follow this linear pattern."
Euro-Country follows 2023’s Crazymad, For Me, which garnered numerous accolades: including a BRITs Best International Artist nod; and ‘Best Album’ nominations from the Ivors; Mercury Prize and the Choice Music Prize - an award she won for her debut, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead.
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.
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"
"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."
