Super Napkin’s friend and album cover art designer, Sherry, has been petrified due to multitasking for an indie label. Around her statue is a colony of pissed off stray cats nicknamed ‘Neighbors,’ pissing on the stonified designer and each other. ‘Michael’s Credit’ is legendary on the street, but all his closest cats know he’s a debtor who doesn’t pay back. ‘Midnight Friends’ gather at the front doors of the bars around the town every night. Together, they drink the canned beer purchased in the convenience stores to fight the pain of unrequited love and refuse to actually go into the bars. ‘Sofia’s Yoga Lesson’ teaches the male cats how to dogeza properly, like a true dog. ‘Wednesday Balloon’ is an urban legend about a wanderlusting calico who traveled from Taiwan to Romania, falling in love for the first time in her life, but left romance behind for her desire of freedom. ‘Strawberry I Want You’ because strawberries have a chemical profile similar to nepetalactol, the attractant found in catnip.

Strawberry I Want You

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Midnight Friends

Michael's Credit

In Super Napkin’s own words, their latest release ‘Subtropical Jet Stream’ is ‘among the Top 80 Octopusgazing albums of all time.’ The album title track ‘Subtropical Jet Stream’ is based on their true experience of riding on a jet stream for a cross-continental trip, and, with dozens of torn speakers, they’ve captured the energy of this unstoppable natural force in this opening track. ‘Love as a Bullet’ is the first known ballad telling human love stories from the angle of a coffee roaster. ‘I’m Thinking’ is a song about all the illogical thoughts and outpouring emotions on an exhausting hiking trip that the narrator didn’t sign up for. ‘Love is a Weapon’ continues to explain this painful hiking trip the narrator didn’t ask for was the direct result of marriage, and it inevitably led to ‘Overcompensation’ in the other aspects of the narrator’s life, such as pedal-hoarding. ‘Diamox Shaped Hearts’ sums it all up through the eyes of the Flying Octopus, questioning human beings’ desire to climb a mountain. To the Flying Octopus, a sea creature, mountains feel like other planets and hiking is not too far from spacewalking. In the song, the Flying Octopus invites the listeners to be in its four pairs of shoes by imagining having a hot pot next to an underwater volcano.

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