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]
CMAT announced tour dates in 2025 to support the album including dates in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and North America.[3][4] The tour, originally set to begin in October 2025, was postponed due to the singer's recovery from wisdom tooth surgery,[12][13] with the rescheduled tour set to begin in November 2025.[14] She performed on the Pyramid Stage at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival.[15]
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 fifteen reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Rachel Aroesti, in a five-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."[17] In December 2025, TheGuardian included Euro-Country in their list of the top 50 best albums of 2025, as the second best album of the year.[22]
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".[21]
In December 2025, The Economist included Euro-Country in their list of the ten best albums of 2025: "An Irish singer with a superb voice toys with the conventions of country music for a modern world. There is much to love here—a particular highlight is a song in which she goes into a reverie while browsing deli goods at a petrol station."[23]
Accolades
On 10 September 2025, Euro-Country was announced as one of 12 nominees for the 2025 Mercury Prize.[24]
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