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CMAT: Euro-Country review – deeply relatable, gloriously catchy Celtic pop from a true one-off

Who else could combine soul, yodelling, Jamie Oliver and Calpol into such charming songs about the messy modern psyche? Only Europe’s best new breakout star

The Guardian - UK

The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza

The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh

The Guardian - UK

Forget U2 – Irish musicians from CMAT to Kneecap are more political than ever

IN FOCUS: It may seem ridiculous to claim that politics is anything new in Irish music, with the country’s folk scene steeped in laments about British rule and colonialism, but current acts like Fontaines DC and Martin Leahy are turning the lens on issues at home in a new way,…

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BBC denies editing Irish language out of new CMAT song

THE BBC has denied editing a new CMAT song to exclude an Irish language segment during its first radio play..

The National (Scotland)

CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than ever

The Guardian - UK

“I don't believe that a company like Barclays, given their financial ties to war crimes, has any place at a metal festival.” Why the conversation around Britain's summer festival season has been all about Gaza, Barclays, and boycotts

Barclays will no longer be sponsoring Download, Isle Of Wight or Latitude festivals following escalating protests and cancellations by musicians and comedians. Louder looks at how this discourse has dominated summer 2024 in the UK

Metal Hammer

On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights

The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie set

The Guardian - UK

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Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2023

It was a year of avant-rap, sex-positive R&B, polyrhythmic jazz and hyper-punk pop – plus Lana Del Rey’s glossy meditations on death and loss

The Guardian - UK

CMAT review – every song is like an encore in this fizzing, sad-happy show

Touring her masterly new album, one of the best of this year, Irish country-pop auteur Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson brings unruly energy, wit and guitar heroics to her searing tales of heartbreak

The Guardian - UK

CMAT, Ireland’s biggest new star: ‘I wanted to make Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell for the girls’

Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s debut album shot straight to No 1 in Ireland and won the RTÉ Choice Music Prize last year. Annabel Nugent speaks to the musician in the makeup chair about her Meat Loaf-inspired follow-up , mining heartbreak for material, and her die-hard love of Toby jugs

The Independent UK

CMAT: Crazymad, for Me review – Irish award-winner’s ambitious second album

(AWAL)Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson sets her characteristic lyrical blend of wit and defiance to a more expansive country-pop sound

The Guardian - UK

Wet Leg at the Royal Albert Hall review: a riotously entertaining show from the recent Brits winners

Did they blow the roof off the Royal Albert Hall? No, but they came pretty close

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