Sinceremat #20: EURO-COUNTRY

A brief and casual intro to my forthcoming album (AKA 3MAT)

Hi Gorjina!

Today i am incredibly honoured to be able to announce the release of my third record, EURO-COUNTRY, which will be arriving on the 29th of August 2025. It was recorded between September to December 2024 in Greenpoint in Brooklyn with my dear friend and long-suffering collaborator Oli Deakin.

- it’s out on August 29 on limited gold vinyl, black vinyl, CD, tape, digital and streaming

- the gold vinyl is limited to 1500 copies only, via the CMAT shop

- Initial album orders come with a signed art card

- we’ve got T-shirts, a CMAT For Life bag and a little key chain with a coin for your shopping trolley (for the big shop)

- If you pre-order the album from my shop before 5pm BST on April 01, you can get pre-sale access to the upcoming UK and Ireland tour!

I have also released the first single ‘Running/Planning’, and its accompanying music video directed by the wonderful and sexy miss Eilis Doherty. The video is being premiered on Youtube at 7pm GMT today, Tuesday (i.e. in a half an hour!) so if you want to watch and then join me on Instagram live after talking nonsense please do.

I’m also happy to say that CMAT and The Very Sexy CMAT Band are going on our biggest tour yet in October. Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday April 4 via cmatbaby.com. But if you want to get pre-sale access, just order the album from my shop before 5pm BST on Tuesday of next week!! You’ll get sent a code instantly if you do.

Oct 02 O2 Academy Brixton, London

Oct 04 Academy, Manchester

Oct 05 O2 Academy, Leeds

Oct 06 NX, Newcastle

Oct 09 Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow

Oct 12 Rock City, Nottingham

Oct 13 Corn Exchange, Cambridge

Oct 15 Dome Concert Hall, Brighton

Oct 16 O2 Institute, Birmingham

Oct 17 UEA, Norwich

Oct 19 Octagon, Sheffield

Oct 20 O2 Academy, Bristol

Dec 05 3Arena, Dublin

While i have you, I’d like to give a little brief intro to the record, namely the title, and just explain how it all came to be.

Firstly I wanna talk about why i am releasing an album in 2025, because i think intent is just as important as the work itself. This is my third record in the space of less than four years, which, if you know how difficult it is to write and record an album, you know how fucking mental that is. I’m aware, and my poor friends and family who never see me are keenly aware.

I seriously considered a long break after ‘Crazymad, For Me’ to see if i could get some semblance of personal life back and maybe, i don’t know, somewhere to live? (All my shit has been in various storage units for over a year and a half now and i have been short-term-letting and spare-room-surfing since January 2024.)

Then last year, someone i loved passed away, and very soon after that someone else i loved was in an accident that can be classed as a near-death experience. The profound sense of urgency i developed as a result made me reevaluate the entire shape of life, knowing for sure now that I can never return to the past. All of the songs came very quickly over the early part of 2024, during touring, and EURO-COUNTRY happened.

The title, ‘EURO-COUNTRY’, is essentially dealing with the big 3 points i wanted to make with this record.

1. EURO-COUNTRY is the genre of music i make. I’ve struggled to lock that down before, and i wanted to make it clear what it is that I do, musically speaking.

2. EURO-COUNTRY is the type of loss, pain and lack of community that i feel we are suffering from under modern capital isolation. It feels like a very different flavour to everything i’ve read about happening in other historical times and i wanted to try and capture it, while i’m here.

3. EURO-COUNTRY is, of course, Ireland. The love of my life, the most toxic boyfriend i’ve ever had, the place which has changed so much that i feel sad every day i can’t return the version of it that is in my head.

The fact that i am in a position where people give me the money, time and resources to continue making records is never lost on me. I am grateful for it every single day from the moment i wake up in the morning to when I fall asleep. Sometimes I can even manage to recognise that the life i lead in my dreams is not as blessed as my reality. Anyone who has ever bought my records or comes to my shows is responsible for that and i just want to thank you deeply, deeply, and will continue to try and do that as much as i can.

I really can’t wait for you to all hear this record because i am so proud of it and so grateful i was allowed to make it.

Lots of love,
CMAT x x x