CMAT — Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson — spent years working behind the scenes and in a duo called Bad Sea in Manchester before going solo, disciplining herself to write and post one new song online every week.
'I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby' and 'I Don't Really Care for You,' both from 2020, are the ones that actually broke through, picking up BBC Radio One airplay off the strength of that weekly output alone. If My Wife New I'd Be Dead, her 2022 debut album, went to No. 1 on the Irish Albums Chart, and Crazymad, for Me and Euro-Country have followed since — a genre blend of pop, country, and indie delivered with enough wit and theatrical flair that critics keep describing her songs as funny and devastating in the same breath.