20 Cats With Musical Instruments Looking Like They’re About to Drop the Album of the Year

Celeste Mello • Writer and Editor

Oct 22, 2026 6:15 AM EDT

Would you give a band a chance just because every member was a cat?

I absolutely would. I'm in a neo-soul band, but unfortunately, none of us are cats. That would have been hilarious. In fact, we tried to make our bassist's cat part of the band, but his cat wasn't so interested. He ran away during every practice session and only came back for the food.

For a big part of my life, I enjoyed music as a listener. I grew up listening to other people's songs. I went through a pop era that revolved around Justin Bieber, a punk era led by Green Day, an alternative rock era with The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys, and an emo era with My Chemical Romance. These days, I'm also a Swiftie. As you can see, my playlists have been through a lot. But I hadn't made my own music until I started playing drums and joined a band in 2021. Becoming friends with my bandmates and making songs together changed my relationship with music. So for about five years now, we've been creating our own songs, which has given me another way to enjoy music. I can try cool grooves with my friends and help turn something we're playing around with into something interesting.

Musicians know that listening to your finished album is one of the most satisfactory experiences. We finally have the recorded result of all that time we spent making music together, recording, editing, producing... So after years of getting attached to other people's songs, it's nice to think that someone might discover ours and connect with them too.

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You got this plugin?

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Her feeder is connected behind the piano

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Full band!

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This is actually very bad for your kittens because they will start to play instruments and form a slam metal band.

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One of the things I love most about making music is getting to do it with my friends. We used to get together at the bassist’s house, and hang out there and play together. Sometimes the guitarist would bring a cool riff and play it for us, so we started playing along, trying things out and seeing where we could take it. Little by little, those ideas became songs, with each of us adding our part from our instruments. It's wild to see what we can create when we bring our different ideas and instruments together. Each of us adds something of our own, and that's pretty unique. Now it feels a little unreal to hear the result of all that time together in one finished album. Our album! I listen to it and remember when those songs were just ideas we were jamming around with at my friend’s house. After spending so much time refining them together, we finally get to share them with the world.
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“Yeah. Our band is pretty avant-garde. We have 3 drummers that all play the same kit."

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Cats love classical music.

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Creative differences...

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Are they on Spotify?

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What a strange guitar… Anybody know the name of it?

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