“Another Time” by Cat Clyde is the sound of a wanderer finally standing still.
The lead single from her upcoming album ‘Mud Blood Bone’ (out 13th March via Concord Records) arrives after years of Clyde writing in her 1973 Boler trailer, on narrowboats in England, always moving. This track pulls that whole mythology apart.
The blues guitar riff feels like you’ve heard it before, even if you haven’t. It’s the kind of familiar that bypasses your brain and goes straight to your chest.
Clyde’s voice sits inside the melancholy without trying to brighten it or make it prettier.
When she sings “that old road keeps calling me to walk a thousand more,” Drew Vandenberg’s production deepens around her, letting the depth of what she’s admitting sink in.
The song’s about intimacy, but Clyde talks about “the power to bottle up and lean into meaningful moments” whilst knowing they’re already slipping away.
There’s no romance in that. It’s just the plain fact that getting close to someone means watching yourself change and losing the version of you that existed in those moments.
The repeated “time time time time time” at the end doesn’t ask for anything. It just is.
The flower imagery in the lyrics makes it clear: blooming and dying by the window isn’t sad because it ends.
It’s sad because someone’s there watching it happen, powerless to stop it. Clyde sings “pass me through the way you do into another time” like she’s asking to be transported, but knows she’s bringing everything with her.
You can change cities, partners, entire lives. The person you were in that perfect moment is already gone by the time you realise you want to keep them.
If there’s a critique, it’s the familiar blues and folk imagery: the road, the passing of time, the pull of tradition. But Clyde isn’t chasing novelty. She leans into the form, and the honesty of her delivery is what gives the song its quiet weight.
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