With ‘Take a Sexy Picture of Me’, a sparkling, razor-sharp soul anthem about body shaming, CMAT delivered one of the best tracks of the year.
Thankfully, Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s third album reveals there’s plenty more where that came from.
‘While a Good Man Cries’ and the barn dance-storming ‘Tree Soix Foive’ are rooted in the country pop the 29-year-old broke through with, Thompson is operating on a much broader and bigger scale here.
Not least with ‘Jamie Oliver Petrol Station’: an unexpected krautrock-driven thumper about being irritated by the TV chef while on tour. “I don’t know anyone that’s making anything that’s like my music,” she told MOJO’s Victoria Segal recently.