Following her acclaimed 2022 debut, Dublin’s Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson returns with luxuriant, catchy country-pop decorated with her biting, candid, self-deprecatory wit on relationship fragility, packed with highly specific pop culture or British references. Those include a love song titled as former footballer Vincent Kompany, as well mentions of Mark E. Smith, Rebekah Vardy, and oodles of amusing phrases such as “bouncy castle Catholic”, or the brutally direct, such as California, “You did this shit to me/Made me brilliant” or “I’d make you torso of the week / If I still bought Heat magazine” on Whatever’s Convenient. Further highlights include slow, stomping style and time-travelling theme of former Song of the Day Have Fun!, the Stevie Nicks-inspired Stay For Something, Where Are Your Kids Tonight (with John Grant), but every track is packed with brilliantly painful humour and emotion, decorated by fantastically entertaining vidoes. CMAT has elements of a standup comic, actress and country singer, with the power of Adele and the brutal self-honesty of Self-Esteem, but of course is charismatically herself. Out on AWAL.
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