"Kiwi Jr.’s Football Money Evokes Top-Shelf Indie Rock" Paste
"Love slacker indie pop a la Pavement? Toronto’s Kiwi Jr are flying that flag proudly on their new album... They’ve just shared the video for new single 'Gimme More,' which hits with equal parts hooks and attitude." Brooklyn Vegan
**** 4 stars “With a vim and focus that recalls early Strokes… tautly tuneful jangle channels the Modern Lovers, the Cars and Pavement with hooks that dig in deep and stay there.” - Mojo
“ A gloriously raggedy piece of indie pop that recalls early R.E.M. and Pavement singles in its Rickenbacker sweep.” - Clash UK
"Bringing to mind the garage rock revival of the early 2000s with a 70s glam vibe, ('Gimme More') is a jangly rocker that features shouted group harmonies with an infectious chorus...the song is accentuated with flourishes of electric guitar, offering up a refreshing reminder that straightforward rock and roll bands are still alive and well." Glide
"Kiwi jr's ‘Football Money‘ is a jangly, sugar-coated, charming debut album destined to be cherished by indie pop/rock fans of all stripes." PopMatters
"Jangly, clever pop will always catch my ear and Kiwi Jr. definitely have that sound. Cant wait for the record!" Austin Town Hall
"Full of shameless hooks, jaunty guitar rhythms, and a cacophonous solo, 'Football Money' is the type of cerebral indie rock that is digestible, but leaves your palette yearning for more." BuffaBlog
"It so effortlessly captures that 90s guitar rock goodness of indie rock acts like Pavement with some infectious hooks and riffs that feel like they’re taken from a different time completely." We All Want Someone To Shout For
"The band is your modern-day Pavement that runs around with Parquet Courts and has dinner with Spoon. Football Money has one-foot tapper after another with its embracing guitars all wrapped around the idea of slacker rock." The Fire Note
**** 4 stars “With impressionistic lyrics, breathless Jonathan Richman meets Richard Hell vocals, and more than a passing nod to early REM, Kiwi Jr re-imagine punk and folk-rock as part of the same glorious lineage.” - Shindig!
"Featuring members of Alvvays, this Canadian band offer delightfully sharp indie-pop." - The I Paper
"Truly infectious” - The Wire
"Delightful as fuck” - NOW magazine
"Naive enough to be charming” - Exclaim!
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All natives of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Kiwi Jr. are now based in Toronto and much of their songwriting-- which has been compared to both Pavement and Weezer -- is informed by the city that surrounds them. They have spent the last 5 years honing their craft both in the studio and live, including opening spots with Wolf Parade, New Pornographers and Alvvays.
Football Money was recreated at high volume on stages across Canada; a dispatch stitched out of fragments, a lustrous twelve-string paint-job unraveling ten booksmart tracks in under thirty minutes. A product of two years of labor, a monument to work-life balance, the record is not unattractively scarred by its circumstance: recorded by nightfall in dormant studios, friends and enemies drafted as backup singers and engineers, the LP untidily fuses the yin of work with the yang of life, chronicling a dual-existence, unkempt instrumentalists moonlighting as undercompensated administrators by the harsh fluorescent light of day, borne back ceaselessly into the Greater Toronto Area by night.
Kiwi Jr,: Rickenbackers detuned to the frequency of a blue-screen migraine, equal parts jangle and punk - a modern day Modern Lovers with the Kinks cc’d
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