Album Review: If My Wife New I'd Be Dead by CMAT

Exuberance, sheer confidence and innate understanding of just what makes pop special provide a stunning entry into a distinct and idiosyncratic world Ever since she started making music as CMAT in 2019, following an inspiring and life changing chat with modern pop icon Charli XCX, Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson has cultivated a persona as a true pop legend, self-styled as “Global Celebrity Teen Pop Sensation From Ireland”. She hasn't yet scaled the charts or headlined festival stages, but in her head and her heart she’s is already the best pop star in the entire world. It's that exuberance, sheer confidence and innate understanding of just what makes pop special beyond the music that makes her so compelling, and her debut album If My Wife New I'd Be Dead is a stunning entry into her distinct and idiosyncratic world.

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A rhinestone cowgirl dragging country music into 2022. "Nashville", the opening track on If My Wife New I'd be Dead, is an absolutely perfect modern country song. Every aspect of "Nashville" absolutely soars, from the strings that play it in, the glitz and glamor of the bells and whistles that fill the sound out and, above all else, the powerhouse voice of CMAT (aka Ciara Mary Alice Thompson). On the surface, the lyrics about running away to Nashville are about as traditional country as one can get, but beneath the surface are lyrics that describe the masking of a deep depression.

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