CMAT

i think this is delightful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JeoggiUgLg

she's irish but reminds me of like... cristina doing country music?

apparently there is a charli xcx connection. anyway, i've decided i love CMAT!

she's got some good Spotify playlists

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3w4v3IHFz2pR0SdzO8M1t6?si=KGt7RKeTSdOm7xqq27FoDQ

I've found I've liked each CMAT song slightly less than the one before it, but that 'Another Day (kfc)' song is amazing. Also I have not listened to the new one that closely yet.

I love this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msm7B15G0hY

tremendous

Seeing acclaim for “Jamie Oliver Petrol Station “ song and after 1 listen I not yet onboard

How about another?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTWg-Ky6VZU

This is as bad as I feared

Sorry meant to post that on UKpol

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SVNTv44C4g

This is really good.

I genuinely think she's a genius

It’s probably actually translated somewhere online by now but initial part in Irish is like

Cad is gá dom a dhéanamh mura bhfuil mé ag bualadh leat?
“What am I to do, if I’m not meeting you?”

“Tá ceann folamh agam, yah, agus pearsantacht nua”
I have an empty head and a new personality/persona? (Side note, “folamh” pronounced “full of” is pretty funny for meaning ‘empty’ but sounding like the opposite meaning)

“Eirím níos dofheicthe, is tú imithe, ó mo shaol”
I become more invisible, you’re gone from my life.

“Níl aon rud fágtha sa scátháin”
There’s nothing left in the mirror.

“An mbeidh mé álainn mhaol?”
Would I still be beautiful bald?

I saw her last summer at a festival and Yorkshire and she said ‘as we’re in Yorkshire this song was inspired by the moors’. Familiar opening to ‘Wuthering Heights’ kicks in. I roll my eyes, why are you going there? Four minutes later, oh god, that was the most amazing thing. On team CMAT from then on.

There is an early Stereolabness to Jamie Oliver Petrol Station that I am finding very pleasing.. And there's a kind of euphoric longing to a lot of her songs that's in the same register as Real Lies except instead of blurred and gone it's sort of sharp and kicking

user gyac sent me this incredible moment. I love how CMAT has apparently become a national treasure??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7XdTFSOoH0

I was genuinely surprised at how much those children loved her, who knew? Apart from RTÉ obviously

thats really sweet

i was not expecting her to remind me so much of pulp?

Pulp?

the obvious one is "jamie oliver petrol station" which is like 50% "common people" but the title track is the one that first made me think of pulp. broadly it's a similar enough melodic sensibility, the conversational vocal style, and the production's sense of artifice?

Fair enough

"Coronation Street" is a lovely song

just discovered CMAT on a best of 2025 list and I am in.

CMAT on The Harry Hill Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdrMzx5qnHE