CMAT has announced her third album ‘EURO-COUNTRY’, set for release on 29th August via AWAL Recordings. Alongside the announcement, she has shared new single ‘Running/Planning’ and revealed an extensive UK and European tour.
The album, recorded in New York and co-produced by Oli Deakin and CMAT, follows 2023’s ‘Crazymad, For Me’. The record explores themes of economics, identity, and grief, with CMAT describing it as “the most important record I’ve made for myself.”
“‘Running/Planning’ is about having to chase your own tail to be good enough to exist,” CMAT explains. “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. That’s the reason for the repetitive chorus! And the minute you don’t follow that path, your mam starts giving out to you. That narrow path that everyone is supposed to be on… the minute you get outside of that, it gets incredibly stressful. And I don’t know anyone who is like, ‘Yeah, love this!’”
Speaking about the album, CMAT says: “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.”
Her dates in full read:
MAY
23 Wide Awake Festival, London, UK
25 Neighbourhood Festival, Warrington, UK
JUNE
5 Primavera, Barcelona, ESP
6 London Stadium, London, UK*
12 St James Park, Newcastle, UK*
14 St James Park, Newcastle, UK*
15 St James Park, Newcastle, UK*
27 Glastonbury, UK
JULY
12 NOS, Lisbon, POR
26 Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
27 Tramlines Festival, Sheffield, UK
AUGUST
1 Belladrum Tartan Heart, Belladrum, UK
2 All Together Now, Waterford, IRE
7 Syd For Solen, Copenhagen, DEN
8 Way Out West, Gothenburg, SWE
14 Cabaret Vert, Charleville Mezieres, FR
15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen, NL
16 Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, UK
28 Boucher Playing Fields, Belfast, UK*
OCTOBER
2 O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
4 Academy, Manchester, UK
5 O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
6 NX, Newcastle, UK
9 Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
12 Rock City, Nottingham, UK
13 Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK
15 Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, UK
16 O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK
17 UEA, Norwich, UK
19 Octagon, Sheffield, UK
20 O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
DECEMBER
5 3Arena, Dublin, IRE
*Supporting Sam Fender
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