The Cradle Announces ‘Get Yourself A Man & Other Love Songs’

Paco Cathcart spent last year releasing their first album under their own name after more than 50 records as the Cradle. The Cradle name now returns, carrying a new LP called Get Yourself A Man & Other Love Songs. It arrives October 1 as a self-release.

The lead single “Human Nature” opens with horns and the phrase “Suicidal ideation.” The track moves through direct questions—“Why do men hate women? / Why do I want to kill everything?”—over arrangements credited to Carmen Quill on bass, Ellie Shannon on French horn, and Tyler Kaneshiro on trumpet. Matt Labozza mastered the recordings.

Cathcart has made the full eight-track album available now on Patreon, where songs from the live set sit alongside what they describe as “fun studio experiments.” Bandcamp pre-orders for cassette and digital are open, though the wider digital release waits for the tapes to finish manufacturing.

The tracklist includes “Double Rainbow,” “Manly Dub,” and “Cada Día Dub,” suggesting a range between songwriting and genre play. The album’s title and the single’s blunt questioning arrive at a moment when Cathcart’s long-running project appears less interested in romantic comfort than in naming the tensions underneath it.