FEBRUARY 12, 2026 — Canadian indie-folk artist Cat Clyde has shared a new single and music video from her recently announced new album, Mud Blood Bone, which is due out March 13 via Concord Records. Produced with Drew Vandenberg (Toro Y Moi, Faye Webster, S.G. Goodman) and including a co-write with Courtney Marie Andrews, Clyde’s fourth full-length and first release with Concord arrives in a sonic overlap: the rockabilly grit of contemporaries like Sierra Ferrell, The Deslondes, or Nick Shoulders, meets the vulnerable, folk rock volatility of Big Thief or Angel Olsen. Throughout the 11-song set, Clyde looks to her indigenous Métis roots and invokes a deep reverence for nature in an effort to redefine her relationship with love in her life. The result is a trudge through the swamp and into vast, cleansing waters that finds Clyde at a critical point of personal evolution—equal parts despair, invocation, discovery, and celebration.
Clyde returns today with the album's second single, "Man's World," alongside a music video directed by Lukáš Hyrman. In an exclusive premiere, FLOOD Magazine states, "Clyde has been knocking around the music industry long enough to know that it, like much of the broader culture surrounding it, is suffocatingly masculine. A decade into her career, the rootsy folk artist is calling out that power imbalance on her latest single from the new record, which sees Clyde resigned to shielding herself from the vampiric patriarchal presence of the world beyond her doorstep."
Of the new song, Clyde offers, "This is an expression of the frustration I feel existing as a woman in a patriarchal world. It sometimes feels difficult to be on a 24 hour clock rather than a 28 day cycle, and a 12 month year instead of a 13 month year. I love and crave masculine energy when it’s strong, protective, and emotionally aware. It has been difficult and deeply disappointing to have had experiences dealing with masculine energy that is childish, cowardly, and encroaching on the feminine space. ‘Man’s World’ touches on my own ideas of what being a woman means in this society and how dangerous and violent it can be for a woman’s heart."
The track follows last month's lead single “Another Time," which gained recognition from Clash Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, OurCulture, Holler, The Bluegrass Situation, KLOF Mag, Glide Magazine, Exclaim!, and more. Clyde is also featured on the new album from Boy Golden (Best Of Our Possible Lives, out tomorrow via Six Shooter Records), who served as an integral collaborator on her own album and will be supporting her on tour in April and May.
Clyde’s relationship with music began through a vent in the floor. “I’d lift the rug up to hear my grandfather playing his fiddle along to cassette tapes in the basement.” This was in North Ontario at summertime family gatherings, the best of which would culminate in impromptu family jam sessions. “I can’t really remember a time when I wasn’t singing.” After a fleeting, childhood stint with the piano, Clyde took on the guitar around age thirteen. “When I discovered Blues music, well, that changed my life.” The riffs of Lead Belly and Robert Johnson were too complicated for her small, preteen hands to master, but they inspired Clyde to write her own songs. She busked through adolescence, joined a punk band called Shit Bats in college, and recorded her first album in a friend’s basement before she graduated. Four full-lengths later, Clyde’s voice vibrates with that ferocious confidence of one who’s been doing this her whole life.
That sense of music as something lived, not learned, finds its clearest expression in how and where Clyde writes. The new songs exude nomadic independence: penned in her 1973 Boler trailer on a farm in Ontario, on a narrow boat in England, or in transit from one festival to another, letting lyrics stream freely from a jetlagged dream state. The result is uninhibited, raw, pure; it’s the sound of personal truth discovered in real time.
“Constantly being on the move, having to navigate new environments, it forces me to be present, and to confront my own feelings,” Clyde says. “You can’t hide behind comforts. You have to know exactly who you are, and what you want.”
Clyde will find herself on the move once again throughout much of 2026. In celebration of the album’s release, she will embark on an extensive North American tour this spring. Please see below for full tour details.
