Euro-Country

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Euro-Country
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Studio album by
Released29 August 2025 (2025-08-29)
Studio
  • Low Pines (Brooklyn)
  • Lightshow (Brooklyn)
  • Rancho Deluxe (Nashville) [1]
Genre
Length49:26
Label
Producer Oli Deakin
CMAT chronology
Crazymad, for Me
(2023)
Euro-Country
(2025)
Singles from Euro-Country
  1. "Running/Planning"
    Released: 25 March 2025
  2. "Take a Sexy Picture of Me"
    Released: 7 May 2025
  3. "The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station"
    Released: 19 June 2025
  4. "Euro-Country"
    Released: 22 July 2025
  5. "When a Good Man Cries"
    Released: 28 August 2025

Euro-Country (stylised in all caps) is the third studio album by the Irish musician CMAT. It was released on 29 August 2025 through CMATBaby and AWAL.

Contents

Background

On 25 March 2025, CMAT announced her third studio album Euro-Country, in which she also released the album's lead single "Running/Planning". [2] [3] She describes the album as the "type of loss, pain and lack of community that she feels that are suffering from under modern capital isolation" and the "best thing she has ever made". [3] [4]

On 7 May 2025, the album's second single "Take a Sexy Picture of Me" was released. [5] Its video received over 1 million views in less than one month. [6] On 19 June, CMAT released "The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station". [7] [8]

On 22 July 2025, the single "Euro-Country" was released. On its first playing on BBC Radio 1, the opening of the song, which features just over 40 seconds in the Irish language, was edited from the play. CMAT confirmed on social media that she was not aware that the song would be edited. [9] The BBC later denied editing the song saying they had broadcast a radio edit that had been supplied to them by the record company. [10]

The album cover features an image of CMAT emerging from a fountain in the middle of a shopping center near her hometown of Dunboyne. [11] The image is based on Jean-Leon Gerome's 1896 painting "Truth Coming Out of Her Well". [11]

Touring

CMAT announced tour dates in 2025 to support the album including dates in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and North America. [3] [4] She performed on the Pyramid Stage at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. [12]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 88/100 [13]
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 7.7/10 [14]
The Line of Best Fit 8/10' [15]
The Irish Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg' [15]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [16]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [17]

The album was met with critical acclaim upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 88, based on thirteen reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Rachel Aroesti, in a 5-star review for The Guardian, called Thompson a "total one-off," and called the album "exceptional because of how Thompson constantly strives – sometimes wryly, sometimes earnestly, always entertainingly – to capture messy psychological entrails that don’t fit the template of the typical pop song." [18]

In her review in Pitchfork, Laura Snapes called it "a lonely album with a whopping heart, a hungry siren call for connection," and called Thompson "a true original". [19]

Track listing

Euro-Country track listing [1]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Billy Byrne from Ballybrack, the Leader of the Pigeon Convoy"0:57
2."Euro-Country"Thompson4:56
3."When a Good Man Cries"Thompson4:32
4."The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station"Thompson5:23
5."Tree Six Foive"
  • Thompson
  • Oli Deakin
3:51
6."Take a Sexy Picture of Me"Thompson3:49
7."Ready"
3:36
8."Iceberg"
  • Thompson
  • Tori Tuller
  • Cameron Neal
4:17
9."Coronation St."Thompson4:02
10."Lord, Let That Tesla Crash"Thompson5:06
11."Running/Planning"Thompson4:26
12."Janis Joplining"Thompson4:24
Total length:49:26

Note

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Euro-Country (Media notes). CMAT. CMATBaby, AWAL. 29 August 2025.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. Chelosky, Danielle (25 March 2025). "CMAT Announces New Album Euro-Country: Hear "Running/Planning"". Stereogum. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Jones, Damian (25 March 2025). "CMAT announces new album 'Euro-Country' with new single 'Running/Planning' and huge UK and European tour". NME. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  4. 1 2 Pickens, Alfie (26 March 2025). "CMAT announces second album 'Euro-Country' and 2025 tour". contactmusic.com. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  5. Dunworth, Liberty (8 May 2025). "CMAT "calls out anyone who criticised my weight or how I looked" on empowering new single 'Take A Sexy Picture Of Me'". NME.com. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  6. "CMAT - Take A Sexy Picture Of Me (Official Video)". youtube.com. 7 May 2025. Archived from the original on 14 May 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  7. Bailey, Adam (21 June 2025). ""The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station": CMAT Channels Existential Angst (and a Krauty Groove) into the Most Chaotic Anti-Diss Track of the Year". Music Talkers.
  8. Chelosky, Danielle (19 June 2025). "CMAT Shares "The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station," Talks Viral "Woke Macarena" Dance". Stereogum.
  9. Kent, David (22 July 2025). "'Not my decision': BBC edit Irish language out of new CMAT single on radio". Irish Examiner.
  10. "BBC says it did not cut Irish from CMAT's single debut". 23 July 2025 via www.rte.ie.
  11. 1 2 Petridis, Alexis (6 June 2025). "CMAT, pop's gobbiest, gaudiest star: 'Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  12. "Line-Up 2025". Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  13. "EURO-COUNTRY by CMAT Review and Tracks". Metacritic . Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  14. "CMAT – 'Euro-Country' Album review". Pitchfork . Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  15. 1 2 "CMAT paints loss and loneliness in bittersweet colours on Euro-Country". Pitchfork . Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  16. "CMAT – 'Euro-Country' review: she's been giving icon, now she is one". NME . Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  17. Aroesti, Rachel. "CMAT: Euro-Country review – deeply relatable, gloriously catchy Celtic pop from a true one-off". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  18. Aroesti, Rachel (29 August 2025). "CMAT: Euro-Country review – deeply relatable, gloriously catchy Celtic pop from a true one-off". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  19. Snapes, Laura. "CMAT: EURO-COUNTRY". Pitchfork. Retrieved 29 August 2025.