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Cat Clyde unveils new single ‘Papa Took My Totems’

Helen Evans — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Canadian indie-folk artist Cat Clyde has unleashed the heart-rattling new ‘Papa Took My Totems’ single and official video.

Partially inspired by her Indigenous Métis heritage, the new song finds Clyde reflecting on the ravaging effects of colonialism, the state of the environment, and masculine-dominated society at large.

“There’s a lot of sacredness that’s being destroyed in the world, and that’s difficult to deal with sometimes,” she explains. “Totems, to me, feel like places and things that are important and real, to witness the destruction of things like that is devastating”.

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Cat Clyde shares new single ‘I Feel It’

Helen Evans — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Canadian indie-folk artist Cat Clyde has released the emotive new album single ‘I Feel It’ which reveals her experience of being an empath.

The song focuses mostly on the positive elements but also a little about the challenges, feeling relief and solace through connecting with nature.

The evocative and haunting new track follows lead single ‘Mystic Light’ and marks the first time Clyde has played piano on a recording. Her brand new studio album Down Rounder is due out February 17.

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Cat Clyde announces new album Down Rounder and shares new single/video ‘Mystic Light’

Helen Evans — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Canadian indie-folk artist Cat Clyde has announced her brand new studio album Down Rounder, due out February 17, 2023 on her own Second Prize Records. It was produced by Tony Berg (Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Public Image Ltd.) at Los Angeles’ famed Sound City studios. Like her “nature punk” contemporary Hurray for the Riff Raff, Clyde’s malleable singing voice—spanning an appealing twang to a lovely, plaintive croon—and contemplative, poetic lyricism espouse an essential connection between our spiritual center and the natural world that surrounds us. “The album is an exploration and expression of self, patterns in the natural and unnatural world, connecting to nature, the turning wheel of life, shedding old selves, embracing new selves, and the ever changing, expanding and contracting nature of love and life,” she explains.

On expansive lead single ‘Mystic Light,’ which arrives alongside an official video, Cat Clyde takes on existential matters over chiming bells, percussive guitar and melodic vocals that warmly envelop listeners. “It’s a song about wanting to understand my journey and purpose,” she explains. “I’m exploring feelings of adriftness, asking for the mystery or magic of life to show her face so I can remember what it’s all for.” Down Rounder indeed sounds like the work of someone who’s found themselves artistically and holistically. The new collection also represents a bold leap forward for Clyde as an artist, cementing her place on the map as a nourishing and essential voice in today’s musical landscape.

Down Rounder is Clyde’s first proper solo album since 2019’s spellbinding Hunters Trance, but she’s also been plenty busy between now and then. In 2020, she released Good Bones, a set of acoustic reimagining from Hunters Trance as well as her 2017 debut Ivory Castanets; last year, Clyde joined up with fellow Canadian country singer-songwriter Jeremie Albino for the stellar collab LP Blue Blue Blue.

Down Rounder:

Everywhere I Go
Papa Took MyTotems
Not Going Back
The Gloom
Mystic Light
Real love
I Feel It
Eternity
Hawk In The Tree
Send Your Love

Photo credit: Strummer Jasson

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