Dublin’s Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, who releases music with a campy country sheen as CMAT, has returned today with the track “2 Wrecked 2 Care.” It follows February’s “I Don’t Really Care for You,” her first single of the year, and it’s a shoutout to the insomniac lifestyle. With each hour she blinks away, her vitality withers until she’s one step away from the netherworld. “One hour sleep, I’m the missing link between the living and the dead,” she sings reaching a pitch akin to Kate Bush.
“I wrote it during a particularly bad period for my sleeping pattern. It’s a song about not being able to fall asleep, and anxiety/stress-related insomnia, something I have suffered from for years. I think I developed it during years of low-paying, irregular shift work,” Thompson said.
“I’m fascinated by the Jekyll and Hyde effect of how a sliding scale of a lack of sleep completely changes your mood, and how you present yourself as a person. Does a regular lack of sleep force you to evolve into a different person entirely? Different thoughts? Different dreams? Different life than the one you would have if you had the freedom to live healthily? I like to think that ‘2 Wrecked 2 Care’ is the song that would have happened if Sheryl Crow ever had to work in a TK Maxx.”
Hear it below.
