Cool Whipped: Boy Golden Rides with Cat Clyde in New Single “Cowboy Dreams”
Photo credit: Marisa Barsy
Two figures on horseback emerge from a moody fog, passing through a parkland forest. This is Boy Golden and Cat Clyde in “Cowboy Dreams,” a magnetic duet that builds from subtle funk to frenzied freakout, a love letter in the form of a fuzzed out commotion. Out today, “Cowboy Dreams” is the second offering from Boy Golden’s forthcoming new album, Best of Our Possible Lives, out February 13, 2026.
The new song and its accompanying Sade-inspired official music video - which required a month of riding lessons - neither confirm nor dispel any assumptions of Boy Golden’s natural cowboy propensities, musical or otherwise. The song’s stream-of-conscious lyrical flow is a compelling foil to the deep seriousness of these avowals. Embodying all the emotional contradictions and subconscious associations of love’s dream state, the new song reflects Boy Golden’s genre-less approach and his new album’s main thesis, reigned only by what is good, what is true, what is here right now.
Of the collaboration with Cat Clyde, Boy Golden says, “Everyone you meet is a mirror, showing you some part of yourself - Cat shows me a part of myself that I really like; a more free, more creative, bolder version of myself. I think that comes through in this song. Her harmony, which runs through the entire song, is perfect.”
“Sewing this song together with Boy Golden was so much fun,” says Cat Clyde. “During one of our collaborative sessions he brought this to the table, with a substantial amount of lyrics. It felt excitingly obvious to me which lines felt really strong and in what order they were asking to fall, to tell a cohesive and complete story. The groove of the demo was really inspiring to me and the harmony I created felt like I was singing my own version of the song alongside him. As with all the work we create together, this process was an inspiring, joyful experience, and I am excited and in celebration to be a part of this release.
As the February 13, 2026 release date of his new album, Best of Our Possible Lives, approaches, Boy Golden is on a roll with a chart-climbing first single “Suffer” (nearing #1 at Canadian Alt radio) and a cross-country tour with William Prince announced for early 2026.
Watch “Suffer” (Official Video) here.
Watch “Suffer” (GemsOnVHS) here.
Watch “Suffer” (Live) here.
Recorded at Lucy’s Meat Market in Los Angeles, the new album’s diverse yet cohesive sound is a nod to the studio cast, starting with producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas, Weather Station). Best of Our Possible Lives includes contributions from Pino Palladino (D’Angelo), Abe Rounds (Meshell Ndegeocello), Gabe Noel (Father John Misty), and Joseph Shabason (Destroyer) alongside Church of Better Daze founding members FONTINE and Austin Parachoniak.
The album’s title, drawing both from the wisdom of Kris Kristofferson and German philosophy, reveals where Boy Golden lands in a centuries-old debate: “The lives we have at this moment are our best possible lives,” he says. “We cannot change the past. We cannot know the future. All we have is this moment right here.”
With the release of Best of Our Possible Lives and major touring planned for 2026, Boy Golden is poised to build on recent successes including his debut JUNO Award nomination, bills with Jason Isbell, MJ Lenderman and Joshua Ray Walker, and producer credits including labelmate William Prince, CJ Wiley, FONTINE and more.
Six Shooter Records releases Best of Our Possible Lives on February 13, 2026.
TOUR DATES:
11/18/25 Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool, Six Shooter’s Cosmic Country Night w/ William Prince, Whitehorse
02/28/26 Saskatoon, SK - TCU Place*
03/01/26 Calgary, AB - Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium*
03/02/26 Kelowna, BC - Community Theatre*
03/03/26 Victoria, BC - Royal Theatre*
03/04/26 Vancouver, BC - Queen Elizabeth Theatre*
03/06/26 Edmonton, AB - Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium*
03/07/26 Regina, SK - Conexus Arts Centre - Capital Auto Theatre*
03/12/26 Halifax, NS - Rebecca Cohn Auditorium*
03/13/26 Fredericton, NB - The Playhouse*
03/14/26 Saint John, NB - Imperial Theatre*
03/15/26 Moncton, NB - Capitol Theatre*
03/17/26 Montreal, QC - Club Soda*
03/18/26 Kingston, ON - Grand Theatre*
03/19/26 Kitchener, ON - Centre in the Square*
03/20/26 Ottawa, ON - Southam Hall*
03/21/26 Toronto, ON - Massey Hall*
*w/ William Prince
ABOUT BOY GOLDEN
A moonstone glow infuses Boy Golden’s Best of Our Possible Lives, an album that reveals its properties - intuition, emotional balance and transformation - through twelve songs of self-discovery. With Best of Our Possible Lives, songwriter/producer Boy Golden’s artistic approach is as philosophical as it is musical. This new work finds him mid-journey, on a quest for honesty with a willingness to examine and accept the self as it was, as it is, and as it can be.
Buoyant, smooth and disarming, as a whole Best of Our Possible Lives draws lines from the Tulsa sound to swampy New Orleans folk. With the lo-fi mystery of mk.gee, the laid-back swagger of MJ Lenderman and the lyrical intimacy of Waxhatachee, Boy Golden’s music is fresh, observational and honest. His melodies wax nostalgia for the giants (think Paul Simon, Tom Petty and J.J. Cale), yet ring true as the work of a young artist, right now.
Who is Boy Golden? A conduit for creation, this artistic persona is both an abstraction and a distillation. A shortcut to the flow state, perhaps, Boy Golden grants access to an inner world that can only be known through songwriting. His previous three albums, which include the wistful For Eden, rollicking For Jimmy and debut album, Boy Golden’s lemon yellow leisure suited Church of Better Daze, have served as a psychic clearing of way for Best of Our Possible Lives. “Each new body of work I have finished has pushed me personally towards greater acceptance of myself as a whole person.”
The new album’s diverse yet cohesive sound is a nod to the studio cast, starting with producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas, Weather Station). The making of Best of Our Possible Lives brought Boy Golden to Lucy’s Meat Market in Los Angeles with Pino Palladino (D’Angelo), Abe Rounds (Meshell Ndegeocello), Gabe Noel (Father John Misty), and Joseph Shabason (Destroyer) alongside Church of Better Daze founding members FONTINE and Austin Parachoniak.
ABOUT CAT CLYDE
Cat Clyde is a singer/songwriter from rural Ontario, Canada. A combination of driven, soulful blues and sweet, folk- tinged, dulcet tones that carry a particular sense of familiarity provide the structure on which she creates her unique sound. Cat recently released a new song “Wild One” and has more new music coming in the spring.
