CMAT announces new album EURO-COUNTRY, shares single ‘Running/Planning’

CMAT has announced her second album EURO-COUNTRY, due for release on 29th August. The news arrives alongside new single ‘Running/Planning’ and a packed live schedule, including Glastonbury, a string of UK headline shows, and support dates with Sam Fender.

‘Running/Planning’ continues CMAT’s sharp commentary wrapped in hyper-catchy pop-country, this time tackling societal pressures on women to follow a prescriptive life path.

“It’s about having to chase your own tail to be good enough to exist,” she says. “You start dating someone, you get engaged, you get married, you have kids… everything has to follow this linear pattern. And the minute you don’t follow that path, your mam starts giving out to you.”

She calls the result an “abstracted view” of that pressure, framed through the lens of a relationship and underscored by a chorus that loops like the expectations it critiques. “The minute you get outside of that [path], it gets incredibly stressful,” she adds. “And I don’t know anyone who is like, ‘Yeah, love this!’”

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EURO-COUNTRY (pre-order here) will be CMAT’s follow-up to 2022 debut If My Wife New I’d Be Dead, which saw her build a devoted audience for her theatrical, deeply witty songwriting. This new phase sees her balancing humour and introspection with growing scale and confidence, as reflected in the run of shows confirmed for 2025.

Highlights include a Glastonbury slot, support sets for Sam Fender at London Stadium and St James’ Park, and her biggest headline dates to date: Brixton Academy in London and 3Arena in Dublin.

CMAT 2025 Tour Dates

May 23rd – Wide Awake Festival, London, UK
May 25th – Neighbourhood Festival, Warrington, UK
Jun 5th – Primavera, Barcelona, ESP
Jun 6th – London Stadium, London, UK *
Jun 12th – St James Park, Newcastle, UK *
Jun 14th – St James Park, Newcastle, UK *
Jun 15th – St James Park, Newcastle, UK *
Jun 27th – Glastonbury, UK
Jul 12th – NOS, Lisbon, POR
Jul 26th – Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
Jul 27th – Tramlines Festival, Sheffield, UK
Aug 1st – Belladrum Tartan Heart, Belladrum, UK
Aug 2nd – All Together Now, Waterford, IRE
Aug 7th – Syd For Solen, Copenhagen, DEN
Aug 8th – Way Out West, Gothenburg, SWE
Aug 14th – Cabaret Vert – Charleville Mezeries, FR
Aug 15th – Lowlands, Biddinghuizen, NL
Aug 16th – Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, UK
Aug 28th – Boucher Playing Fields, Belfast, UK *
Oct 2nd – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
Oct 4th – Academy, Manchester, UK
Oct 5th – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
Oct 6th – NX, Newcastle, UK
Oct 9th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
Oct 12th – Rock City, Nottingham, UK
Oct 13th – Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK
Oct 15th – Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, UK
Oct 16th – O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK
Oct 17th – UEA, Norwich, UK
Oct 19th – Octagon, Sheffield, UK
Oct 20th – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
Dec 5th – 3Arena, Dublin, IRE

* Supporting Sam Fender

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