Artist:
CMAT
Genre:
Pop
Total Time:
49:00
Record Label:
CMATBABY
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
August 29, 2025
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CMAT
Genre:
Pop
Total Time:
49:00
Record Label:
CMATBABY
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
August 29, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: Watching the pure joy of Glastonbury-goers doing the Woke Macarena to CMAT’s anthem “Take a Sexy Picture of Me” at her 2025 performance might make you think Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson is having an easy time being a pop star. But the story behind her third album, EURO-COUNTRY, released two months later, suggests otherwise.
“I didn’t think I was going to make another record so quickly, and when all these ideas started landing, I knew I needed to do this before I could do anything else,” CMAT tells Apple Music of the follow-up to 2023’s Crazymad, for Me. “It was a very hard album to make for a number of reasons, and it’s a very heavy subject matter. What we were trying to pull off was so difficult that I had a really hard time making it. But that being said, I’m really proud of it,” she says.
It’s a big album. While “Take a Sexy Picture of Me” provided the perfect—and well-deserved—pop crossover, complete with viral TikTok dance, CMAT was keen to stay true to her roots and go “full country” on songs like “When a Good Man Cries.” CMAT recorded the album in New York, addressing themes of grief, loss, and “the ambition to be bigger and more important than you currently are,” both in terms of herself and her native Ireland. “In general, I have to work on things on the road when they’re in their infancy,” she says. “But place-wise, I think this album was born of grief and loss and sadness and stuff, and things being put into perspective for me in a way that they hadn’t been before. All of this suffering I endured making it, and now I’m bearing the fruits.” Read on as CMAT talks through EURO-COUNTRY, one track at a time.
“Billy Byrne from Ballybrack, the Leader of the Pigeon Convoy” “I definitely needed something to open up the record that wasn’t my voice. A lot of this album is criticizing Ireland, which is something I love more than anything else in the world. So, I wanted something that captured my love for it and to show people I wasn’t coming from a snotty place. One day, I randomly came across a documentary, and this scene happened. Billy Byrne is about to free a lot of pigeons, and this is a phone call that he makes from a telephone box that’s in the middle of a beach. He sums up everything that I love about Ireland: its weirdness, its beauty, and its warmth.”
“I didn’t think I was going to make another record so quickly, and when all these ideas started landing, I knew I needed to do this before I could do anything else,” CMAT tells Apple Music of the follow-up to 2023’s Crazymad, for Me. “It was a very hard album to make for a number of reasons, and it’s a very heavy subject matter. What we were trying to pull off was so difficult that I had a really hard time making it. But that being said, I’m really proud of it,” she says.
It’s a big album. While “Take a Sexy Picture of Me” provided the perfect—and well-deserved—pop crossover, complete with viral TikTok dance, CMAT was keen to stay true to her roots and go “full country” on songs like “When a Good Man Cries.” CMAT recorded the album in New York, addressing themes of grief, loss, and “the ambition to be bigger and more important than you currently are,” both in terms of herself and her native Ireland. “In general, I have to work on things on the road when they’re in their infancy,” she says. “But place-wise, I think this album was born of grief and loss and sadness and stuff, and things being put into perspective for me in a way that they hadn’t been before. All of this suffering I endured making it, and now I’m bearing the fruits.” Read on as CMAT talks through EURO-COUNTRY, one track at a time.
“Billy Byrne from Ballybrack, the Leader of the Pigeon Convoy” “I definitely needed something to open up the record that wasn’t my voice. A lot of this album is criticizing Ireland, which is something I love more than anything else in the world. So, I wanted something that captured my love for it and to show people I wasn’t coming from a snotty place. One day, I randomly came across a documentary, and this scene happened. Billy Byrne is about to free a lot of pigeons, and this is a phone call that he makes from a telephone box that’s in the middle of a beach. He sums up everything that I love about Ireland: its weirdness, its beauty, and its warmth.”
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Billy Byrne From Ballybrack, The Leader Of The Pigeon Convoy
(00:57)
2 . EURO-COUNTRY (04:57)
3 . When A Good Man Cries (04:32)
4 . The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station (05:24)
5 . Tree Six Foive (03:52)
6 . Take A Sexy Picture Of Me (03:50)
7 . Ready (03:36)
8 . Iceberg (04:17)
9 . Coronation St. (04:03)
10 . Lord, Let That Tesla Crash (05:07)
11 . Running/Planning (04:27)
12 .Janis Joplining (04:25)
2 . EURO-COUNTRY (04:57)
3 . When A Good Man Cries (04:32)
4 . The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station (05:24)
5 . Tree Six Foive (03:52)
6 . Take A Sexy Picture Of Me (03:50)
7 . Ready (03:36)
8 . Iceberg (04:17)
9 . Coronation St. (04:03)
10 . Lord, Let That Tesla Crash (05:07)
11 . Running/Planning (04:27)
12 .Janis Joplining (04:25)
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