"Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson suffered what sounds like a pretty terrifying breakdown. I started actually hallucinating, she said earlier this year. I didn't realise for the first two months that was what was happening, but I basically imagined the entire apartment I was staying in was crawling with insects I went to the doctor and showed him my bites, and he said: Those are stress hives; you're mental.'"
"On the contrary: it sounds like the supremely assured work of a songwriter whose powers have reached a new peak. It is, by turns, poignant, moving, furiously angry, uproariously funny and packed with incredible tunes. It strides confidently away from the country-infused style she minted on her 2022 debut If My Wife New I'd Be Dead, into territory that touches on jazz (Janis Joplining), raging alt-rock (The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station)"
"pause her description of a collapsing relationship on When a Good Man Cries to castigate herself for being the people's mess, the Dunboyne Diana; or deliver an opening as wait-what? as that of Lord, Let That Tesla Crash (I heard death comes in threes / I misheard it, being from Dublin / I thought death's in the trees' / Which makes sense because they're the"
CMAT recorded Euro-Country in New York while creating the follow-up to 2023's Crazymad, for Me. She experienced a severe breakdown during the sessions, reporting hallucinations of insects and stress hives. Despite those difficulties and her own dissatisfaction with the previous record, the new album presents a supremely assured set of songs that are poignant, furious, funny and richly tuneful. Euro-Country moves beyond the earlier country-infused style into jazz, alt-rock and soul-kissed pop while retaining CMAT's core sensibility. The album contains moments that break the fourth wall and deploy surreal, self-castigating lyricism.
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