EURO-COUNTRY: Cloudy Blue Double Vinyl

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Label: CMATBABY
Release Date: 28th November

Record of the Year material all over this album, which in only a few months has turned itself into one of the most crowd pleasing records of the year, whilst being stacked with some of the year's finest songwriting from one of music's most charismatic performers. This is seriously one of my most listened to albums of the year.

It’s almost inconceivable that it’s only five years since the arrival of CMAT, as she approaches the release of her third album, EURO-COUNTRY. This BRITs / Mercury / Ivors-nominated acronymic star feels like she’s been part of the culture forever - and what has endeared fans to her heart-sore tunes and humour is CMAT's ability to combine contradictory themes and moods: wide-eye drama with self-deprecation.
Country music has always been a lynchpin for CMAT, but this is country in an augmented, reimagined way. Mixed with classic indie and affirmative soul-pop, it resists the music industry’s desire to pigeonhole artists as one genre.
Not only is there a palpable tonal shift, EURO-COUNTRY also feels like a huge step-up
creatively. There is a sense of determination, of urgency, of ‘gather round and listen up’.
From re-evaluating where you come from (geographically, metaphorically) and the impact of economics on a small country, to the attention that comes with increased fame (not all of it good) and being a woman in the music industry.