From CMAT and the Carpenters’ fresh starts to the Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun and Nina Simone’s Feeling Good, starting again is a rich theme in pop. Here are some of the best examples ...

The 29-year-old Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, who is known as CMAT - Lorne Thomson/Redferns Lesser artists would surely crumble under the pressure of being hailed pop’s latest saviour. But it was ...

Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Issa Nasatir, Scotty Dransfield, and Wendy Redfern helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Dublin-born CMAT is a self-deprecating daydreamer, an ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This image is the official album cover for Crazymad, For Me. Crazymad, For Me is only CMAT’s ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

If you assembled a focus group of today’s country artists and asked them to list their biggest influences, a few names would probably rise to the top: Johnny Cash and Hank Williams; Dolly Parton and ...

If anything were evident from the unrestrained and humorous stories covering up deeper anguish on her 2022 debut If My Wife Knew I’d Be Dead, it’s that CMAT’s inky humor has a knack for adding some ...

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From Oasis at Croke Park to that Coldplay kiss cam moment and from Netflix hit Adolescence to The Traitors Ireland, it's been ...