An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love by Trent Liptak

Back to school season means sending a new generation of young adults off to college, and with that new chapter comes an unexpected mountain of identity, community, and romantic crises. This once-in-a-lifetime coming-of-age moment shines in all its melodramatic glory on An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love by Trent Liptak, a bedroom folk concoction that balances its homespun charm with surprisingly mature songwriting and a production quality that punches well above its weight. Each song brings an inventive new way to express this seemingly endless well of suffering unleashed by a breakup, always locking in to a melody or lyrical motif that sticks with us well after the track ends. However far we may be from this moment in our own lives, we instantly transport back to this pinpoint instant when we realized the razor’s edge between passionate love and deep resentment, between indestructible comfort and absolute chaos, and we heal that broken, shocked inner self with romantic cat poems and catchy lyrical laments.