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Mar 4, 2022It’s a rare skill to be both silly and devastatingly tender, and it’s all here to revel in.
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Mar 11, 2022There is both a braggadocios confidence and an honest humility across all of If My Wife New I’d be Dead, a masterfully created dichotomy that is at the center of everything that CMAT creates.
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Mar 28, 2022“If My Wife New I’d Be Dead” is a fully formed debut, replete with big choruses, imaginative song ideas, and enough charm to carry the album’s almost one-hour running time.
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Mar 7, 2022The home-brewed spectacle of this album makes it easy to visualize CMAT tackling bigger stages in the future. It's a witty and thoroughly delightful debut.
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Mar 4, 2022CMAT is a pop tour de force who knows exactly who she wants to be and has all the talent to deliver it.
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MojoMar 4, 2022Five minutes in her personal company would likely be exhausting, but for this album's duration her brain salad music is fantastical. [Apr 2022, p.82]
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Mar 4, 2022It all works together, amping up the winking, cheeky side of country while also showing CMAT to be an artist enthralled by the genre but not beholden to it.
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Mar 4, 2022This record offers a maelstrom of mistakes and confusion and glee and love and loneliness and hope – and the mess of it all makes for the biggest gift.
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Mar 8, 2022If My Wife New I’d Be Dead is a promising debut from an artist who certainly knows how to craft a tune.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 20
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Mixed: 1 out of 20
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Negative: 2 out of 20
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Jun 21, 2022
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May 3, 2022
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Mar 21, 2022Really good album, so catchy and uplifting. The lyrics are smart and well executed.