Artist Of The Week #321 - Cat Clyde
This week's Artist of the Week is Canadian indie-folk artist Cat Clyde - who has just released her new album 'Mud Blood Bone' via Concord Records.
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. It’s 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.
She took a moment to talk to us about how the album came together.
Hey there Cat, how are you? So your album is out now – how does it feel to have it out there?
It feels great to have my album out! It’s been an enormous amount of preparation and creation to get here and it feels so good to finally share it all.
It is called 'Mud Blud Bone' – what is the meaning behind that?
I went through a lot of transitions in my life making this record. In a lot of ways I felt like I went through a rebirth. I waded through a lot of mud internally, shed a lot of blood and the very fabric of my bones changed and evolved. It was a painful transition, but being on the other side - I feel there’s been a lot of room created for big blessings to come through for me and I am so grateful.
Where was it recorded? Any behind the scenes stories you are willing to share with us?
This record was recorded at Chase Park Transduction Studios in Athens, Georgia.
What are the key influences behind the album?
My key influences for this record were the natural world, love, and time.
If the album could be a soundtrack to any film – which one and why?
Interesting question. Maybe a movie about an alchemist who gets her heart broken.
Now the album is out there – what next for you?
What’s next for me is sharing these songs out in the road. Feeling them and allowing them to change and evolve in a new way.
