Made in celebration of St Patrick’s Day 2022, CMAT’s Apple Music Home Session sees the Dublin-based singer-songwriter cover the Irish track she reckons is the best of all time: Gilbert O’Sullivan’s 1972 hit “Alone Again (Naturally).” “It is the greatest Irish song ever made,” CMAT—real name Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson—tells Apple Music. “Gilbert is a great Waterford man, like the majority of my family, so we’re all proud of him. But I am particularly proud as I think he is one of the greatest songwriters, not only from Ireland, but from the world. The magic of Irish songwriting is being able to write a song about throwing yourself off the roof of a church, and it still going to No. 1 in 20 countries.” Elsewhere, the rising star—whose songs are a thrilling blend of country, pop, indie, and more, and all feature her dryly witty lyricism—offers striking versions of tracks from her 2022 album If My Wife New I’d Be Dead. The first is “Lonely,” inspired by the isolation she once felt living and working in Manchester, her bare vocals here carrying the full weight of the track’s emotion (“I’m so lonely, and I don’t have any real friends”). And it’s followed up by “Peter Bogdanovich,” a track that explores the real-life story of Hollywood power couple Polly Platt and Bogdanovich, through which CMAT explores both being cheated on and being the other woman.