EARLY TWENTIES BY CAT BURNS: REVIEWED!

Listen Cat Burns ok (a “you did it, you’re here” to you and yours) I know you’re wicked and you’re doing your thing. And the lack of capital letters is your intentional choice as a gen z artist and I respect that. But we here at the cccah and in the cccahc do things a little differently, ok? We capitalise EVERY piece of art we’re reviewing in the first line of the shownotes. It’s just the deal, ok? It’s to catch the eye and be clear and just, yeah … forgive us ok? In every other reference in this show note (and the show itself, no matter how begrudgingly) we will refer to the lack of capitals you have consciously chosen in your debut album title. I am curious. Will this continue throughout what I hope is a long and fruitful career? Or will it flame out, like so many gen z innovations seem to do? Only time will tell. 

We hope you enjoy today/s episode that answers the question so many loyal listeners have been asking for ages, namely, whether we have ever before had a (*POTENTIAL SPOILERS TO FOLLOW IN COMPLETING THIS RHETORICAL QUESTION*) draw episode consisting of two homers? Damn that’s wild. 

Listen to early twenties by Cat Burns here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/early-twenties/1735981910

Watch Cat Burns on Jamie Laing’s podcast Great Company here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FSYbwZysS0

Read this Pitchfork review of early twenties by Cat Burns here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/14/cat-burns-early-twenties-review-go

Read this article about the state of music criticism by Kelefa Sanneh for the New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/how-music-criticism-lost-its-edge

Check out all the amazing statistics you can shake a stick at (and boy did we shake sticks at certain statistics in particular on today’s broadcast) on one of the top 5 websites Jonny Mortemore has ever made: cccappraisalhour.show 

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher almost admitted to giving something a 0 in our 1-5 score system but then refused to admit what for but then admitted it was a joke but then also maybe it wasn’t. Good stuff. Also Christopher refusing to go viral and specify who sucked at All Points East. Lame. We’re ready for beef man, we’re six seasons deep. Let's go. Off Menu podcast, where you attttttt???

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

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