Cat Clyde has shared “Man’s World,” the second single from her forthcoming album Mud Blood Bone, set for release March 13th via Concord Records. The track arrives with an accompanying music video, directed and shot by Lukas Hyrman, and follows last month’s lead single “Another Time,” which announced the Canadian indie-folk artist’s fourth full-length and first release with Concord.
“Man’s World” directly confronts the frustrations of navigating a patriarchal society. “This is an expression of the frustration I feel existing as a woman in a patriarchal world,” Clyde explains. “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 lyrics, and video, crystallize the tension Clyde talks of; most striking being the acknowledgement that expressing one’s full self as a woman requires constant self-protection (“I can’t express my woman self/Without a shield across my chest”), a theme that reverberates through the album’s exploration of cyclical transformation and Clyde’s Métis connection to natural rhythms that exist outside patriarchal structures.
Produced with Drew Vandenberg (Toro Y Moi, Faye Webster, S.G. Goodman) and including a co-write with Courtney Marie Andrews, Mud Blood Bone finds Clyde exploring the non-linear nature of memory and constant personal evolution. The 11-song collection is described as channelling the rockabilly grit of Sierra Ferrell and Nick Shoulders while embracing the vulnerable folk rock volatility of Big Thief and Angel Olsen.
Don’t miss her UK and EU Tour dates below.
Pre-Order Mud Blood Bone: Bandcamp | Concord Records
Cat Clyde UK/EU Tour:
22 Apr – Berlin – Germany
23 Apr – Hamburg – Germany
25 Apr – Amsterdam – Netherlands
26 Apr – Antwerp – Belgium
27 Apr – Leffinge – Belgium
28 Apr – Paris – France
30 Apr – London – UK
01 May – Manchester – UK
02 May – Glasgow – UK