CLUNK Recommends | CMAT – Euro-Country

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CMAT’s latest single release ‘Euro-Country’ is the title track of her upcoming album and is a devastating manifesto of truth

There are artists that feel like a gentle hum in the background, the kind that accompany you during your day to day life and for me, that’s CMAT. She’s played in the cafe I work in, comes up in my Spotify shuffle when I’m walking home, she’s everywhere and I’m honestly not mad about it. 

Her songs aren’t just played, they find a home in your mind and your heart – sitting somewhere between a laugh and a lump in your throat. And her newest offering, ‘Euro-Country‘ is exactly like that – a track that feels like a quiet, devastating soundtrack of a changing landscape. One you don’t even realise has changed until it’s too late.

With Euro-Country, (the title track to CMAT‘s new album releasing on August 29th via AWAL Recordings), she’s laying out a new manifesto, a triple-layered truth. 

‘Euro-Country’ is undoubtedly country, a genre  that’s lived through Irish rain and complicated histories. And, perhaps, most piercingly, the quiet crawl of capitalism. The kind that reshapes towns, hollows out communities and leaves unspoken grief. 

Finally, ‘Euro-Country‘ is another reminder that CMAT remains rooted in something profoundly human, something achingly honest. She’s not trying to chart her way to fame, she’s taking her time, navigating the internal truths that come with it, the beautiful and the unsettling. 

“I’m always going to make the work I want to make,” CMAT says, “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.” And thank god for that gremlin, because ‘Euro-Country’ is anything but. It’s a testament to an artist relentlessly pushing herself, stripping back the noise to find the real, honest core.

This isn’t just a CLUNK Recommendation, this is an invitation. Step into CMAT’s ‘Euro-Country’ and let its melodies and its quiet, poignant rage settle in. Make a little home, maybe light a fire, pour you a nice cup of tea. It’s a track that may haunt, question and ultimately, one that makes you feel a little less alone in the strangeness of it all … which is something I think we all need a little bit of right now.

Listen to ‘Euro-Country’ here:

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Catch CMAT at the following:

Aug 1st – Belladrum Tartan Heart, Belladrum, UK
Aug 2nd – All Together Now, Waterford, IRE
Aug 7th – Syd For Solen, Copenhagen, DEN
Aug 8th – Way Out West, Gothenburg, SWE
Aug 14th – Cabaret Vert, Charleville Mezieres, FR
Aug 15th – Lowlands, Biddinghuizen, NL
Aug 16th – Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, UK
Aug 23rd – All Points East, London, UK
Aug 28th – HMV, Belfast, UK (solo instore performance)
Aug 28th – Boucher Playing Fields, Belfast, UK *
Aug 29th – Golden Discs, Dublin, IRE (solo instore performance)
Aug 30th – Rough Trade, Nottingham, UK (solo instore performance)
Aug 31st – Jacaranda, Liverpool, UK (solo instore performance)
Sep 1st – Rough Trade East, London, UK (solo instore performance)
Sept 2nd – Banquet, Kingston, UK (solo instore performance)
Sept 3rd – Resident, Brighton, UK (solo instore performance)
Sept 4th – Rough Trade, Bristol, UK (solo instore performance)
Sep 8th – The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, US
Sep 10th – Gothic Theatre, Englewood, US
Sep 12th – Fine Line, Minneapolis, US
Sep 13th – Park West, Chicago, US
Sep 15th – The Concert Hall, Toronto, CA
Sep 17th – Paradise Rock Club, Boston, US
Sep 18th – Webster Hall, New York, US
Sep 20th – Shaky Knees, Atlanta, US
Sep 21st – Basement East, Nashville, US
Oct 2nd – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK – sold out
Oct 4th – Academy, Manchester, UK – sold out
Oct 5th – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK – sold out
Oct 6th – NX, Newcastle, UK – sold out
Oct 8th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – sold out
Oct 9th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – sold out
Oct 10th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – sold out
Oct 12th – Rock City, Nottingham, UK – sold out
Oct 13th – Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK – sold out
Oct 15th – Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, UK – sold out
Oct 17th – UEA, Norwich, UK – sold out
Oct 19th – Octagon, Sheffield, UK – sold out
Oct 20th – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK – sold out
Oct 22nd – Depot, Cardiff, UK – sold out
Oct 23rd – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK – sold out
Dec 5th – 3Arena, Dublin, IRE – sold out

* Supporting Sam Fender

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