CMAT’s debut album "If My Wife New I'd Be Dead" follows over two years of cleverly teased self-released singles, two of which – I Don’t Really Care for You and I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby! – are included here. This is not a conventional pop star album. But is CMAT conventional? Not at all!
Candy cane-voiced 25-year-old Irish Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson likes dressing up, jokes and country and western music. Combined, these aren't traditional ingredients for pop stars, but she dresses like a Technicolor Judy Garland, possesses a wonderfully dark humour - "My mental health is banking on my chastity", No More Virgos declares as she takes Patsy Cline to the disco - and makes the kind of country-pop beloved of line-dancing drag queens, who you'll find on that song's video.
If you're not already sold on this self-confessed "global celebrity teen pop sensation from Ireland", that's your loss, but not everyone's looking for the 21st century equivalent of Skeeter Davis produced by Phil Spector after a night on the tiles.
If they are - and they should be - then this wittily titled debut's opening brace will convince them, with Nashville's tale of pretending to ship out of town just to be alone surprisingly moving and I Don't Really Care For You adding lovely 1960s girl group harmonies on a tale of self-recrimination.
She's similarly hard on herself on I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby! while Every Bottle Is A Boyfriend is a gift for student parties, and I'd Want U proves Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson can cry into her beer more elegantly than most.
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